Kat
05-10-2007, 08:08 AM
Poor girls. The pic is in the link, and they do NOT look fat at all. What ashame that they think that :(
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1476742658
Students can't stomach bare-bellied photo, so they swipe newspapers
By John Hilliard/Daily News staff
GateHouse News Service
Wed May 09, 2007, 12:05 PM EDT
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FRAMINGHAM - Nearly 1,000 copies of the Framingham State College student newspaper were stolen by students embarrassed by the journal's front-page photo of them as bare-bellied FSC lacrosse fans attending a recent home game.
MW Now: Paper chasten?
"I guess they were embarrassed about how they looked in the photo," said college spokesman Peter Chisholm.
The color picture, which ran in the April 27 edition of the student newspaper, The Gatepost, shows seven women in tank tops and low-rise shorts standing on bleachers during a women's lacrosse home game. In a show of school spirit, the women had the letters of the name of a woman lacrosse player painted over their stomachs.
But school spirit seemingly faded after someone got a look at the front-page photo, which led some of the FSC students in the photo to swipe close to half the paper's 2,000-copy press run featuring the picture on April 27 and over the following weekend.
According to Desmond McCarthy, an English professor and the paper's faculty adviser, school members said some fans depicted in the photo believed they looked fat.
"This is the most stupid reason the paper has been stolen," said McCarthy, who noted editions of The Gatepost were stolen four times in the last 15 years.
One student who admitted taking the papers gave campus police a stack of about 130 copies, said McCarthy. The papers were taken from drop boxes in dorms across the campus and hidden in dorm rooms.
McCarthy and Megan Turner, The Gatepost's editor in chief, said the students responsible for stealing the paper should be required to pay for reprints of the lost papers. Turner said printing 500 copies can cost about $630.
"I think it's incredibly disappointing" the papers were stolen, said Turner. "They were in a public place ... and doing a very public thing."
Chisholm said campus police quickly learned who stole the papers when one of the students in the picture turned herself in and the students admitted to absconding with the journals, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in March.
The college police will not seek criminal charges against the students, said Chisholm. The college is still investigating and the students could face judicial action by the school, he said.
"The college doesn't condone actions such as this. We think it was a childish thing to do," said Chisholm.
Turner said since the papers were stolen last month. There has been no public comment from FSC administration regarding the incident.
In a follow-up interview, Chisholm said his statements to the press are the college's official position on the matter and that administrators are "very irritated by this."
"The campus is not going to stand for this," said Chisholm. "Hopefully, for these young ladies, they'll start maturing."
McCarthy said the theft infringed on the First Amendment rights of the paper's staff and FSC students, plus pointed to an unhealthy attitude on body image.
"I feel bad that a group of women took the paper because of how they looked," said McCarthy.
(John Hilliard can be reached at 508-626-4449 or jhilliar@cnc.com.)
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1476742658
Students can't stomach bare-bellied photo, so they swipe newspapers
By John Hilliard/Daily News staff
GateHouse News Service
Wed May 09, 2007, 12:05 PM EDT
Story Tools: Email This | Print This
FRAMINGHAM - Nearly 1,000 copies of the Framingham State College student newspaper were stolen by students embarrassed by the journal's front-page photo of them as bare-bellied FSC lacrosse fans attending a recent home game.
MW Now: Paper chasten?
"I guess they were embarrassed about how they looked in the photo," said college spokesman Peter Chisholm.
The color picture, which ran in the April 27 edition of the student newspaper, The Gatepost, shows seven women in tank tops and low-rise shorts standing on bleachers during a women's lacrosse home game. In a show of school spirit, the women had the letters of the name of a woman lacrosse player painted over their stomachs.
But school spirit seemingly faded after someone got a look at the front-page photo, which led some of the FSC students in the photo to swipe close to half the paper's 2,000-copy press run featuring the picture on April 27 and over the following weekend.
According to Desmond McCarthy, an English professor and the paper's faculty adviser, school members said some fans depicted in the photo believed they looked fat.
"This is the most stupid reason the paper has been stolen," said McCarthy, who noted editions of The Gatepost were stolen four times in the last 15 years.
One student who admitted taking the papers gave campus police a stack of about 130 copies, said McCarthy. The papers were taken from drop boxes in dorms across the campus and hidden in dorm rooms.
McCarthy and Megan Turner, The Gatepost's editor in chief, said the students responsible for stealing the paper should be required to pay for reprints of the lost papers. Turner said printing 500 copies can cost about $630.
"I think it's incredibly disappointing" the papers were stolen, said Turner. "They were in a public place ... and doing a very public thing."
Chisholm said campus police quickly learned who stole the papers when one of the students in the picture turned herself in and the students admitted to absconding with the journals, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in March.
The college police will not seek criminal charges against the students, said Chisholm. The college is still investigating and the students could face judicial action by the school, he said.
"The college doesn't condone actions such as this. We think it was a childish thing to do," said Chisholm.
Turner said since the papers were stolen last month. There has been no public comment from FSC administration regarding the incident.
In a follow-up interview, Chisholm said his statements to the press are the college's official position on the matter and that administrators are "very irritated by this."
"The campus is not going to stand for this," said Chisholm. "Hopefully, for these young ladies, they'll start maturing."
McCarthy said the theft infringed on the First Amendment rights of the paper's staff and FSC students, plus pointed to an unhealthy attitude on body image.
"I feel bad that a group of women took the paper because of how they looked," said McCarthy.
(John Hilliard can be reached at 508-626-4449 or jhilliar@cnc.com.)