{"id":1400384,"date":"2022-03-25T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400384"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:31:05","slug":"vassar-student-newspaper-retracts-article-apologizes-for-quoting-too-many-white-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vassar-student-newspaper-retracts-article-apologizes-for-quoting-too-many-white-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassar Student Newspaper Retracts Article, Apologizes for Quoting Too Many &#039;White Students&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvassar-student-newspaper-retracts-article-apologizes-for-quoting-too-many-white-students%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Vassar College student newspaper announced this week that it has retracted an article published in February, because \u201cthe\u00a0majority of our quotations came from white students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The student newspaper, the <em>Miscellany News<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miscellanynews.org\/2022\/03\/23\/news\/apology-from-the-editors-2\/\">explained<\/a> that on February 17, it had reported that former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson \u2014 who served during the Obama administration\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/09\/obama-dhs-chief-jeh-johnson-withdraws-as-vassar-commencement-speaker-following-protests\/\">withdrew<\/a> from his spot as the next commencement speaker at Vassar College.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_10167195\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Jeh-J.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeh Johnson(AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis article intended to report on student feelings about Johnson\u2019s nomination and subsequent withdrawal. Since then, the online version of the article has been pulled from The Miscellany News website \u2014 a decision made by the Executive Board in concert with the News Editors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The editorial board went on to explain that the article was pulled because it featured too many quotes from white students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn prioritizing urgency over thoroughness, we made misguided and insensitive oversights with whom we were representing in the article and failed to provide in-depth reporting of the issue at large,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of our quotations came from white students and therefore we reduced the positions of students of color to a singular, tokenized perspective,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The student newspaper also stressed its commitment to \u201cvalues of diversity and inclusion,\u201d and claimed the removed article \u201cexemplifies many of the institutional flaws and structural problems within our paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The editorial board went on to proclaim that \u201cconsistent action must be taken in order to address the systemic problems within <em>The Miscellany News.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of these steps includes our current process of making a review board that aims to examine quotes and sources to ensure both their veracity and the integrity of their representation within the article,\u201d the board added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalism, including college journalism, has historically been a white-centric, often elitist field, and The Miscellany News is not immune to the consequences of these structures,\u201d the newspaper claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe publication of the article and its subsequent removal reminds us of the systemic issues our members are implicated in, as well as the privilege and lack of diversity that we have allowed to persist for generations across our boards,\u201d the board added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a college newspaper, we want to emphasize that though we are committed to covering news of the Vassar community and campus, our main priority will always be to report all student voices to the best of our ability,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vassar College student newspaper announced this week that it has retracted an article published in February, because \u201cthe\u00a0majority of our quotations came from white students.\u201d The student newspaper, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}