Students at B.U. Start New Paper

A group of Boston University students need only $2000 more to form a newspaper independent of their university's censorship.

The proposed paper will be called the B.U. Gazette, and will rival the B.U. News, the university-owned weekly. According to Ray Mungo, associate editor of the News and one of the paper's organizers, the Gazette is an attempt to establish a student newspaper in a university which holds that "there is no role for a specifically student newspaper."

The Gazette was first conceived last spring when the university asserted its right to suppress some "irresponsible" editorials in the News. After a brief controversy, the administration agreed to a review by an 11-member board, three of which are undergraduates.

Mungo said that the Board is "particularly odious" because any vote always comes out "with three undergraduates against everyone else." He feels that however well-intentioned the other eight members of the board are, they can be easily misled on undergraduate affairs.

"There are no set taboos on what to write and what not to write," he said, but "editorials almost always approve of the administration," Mungo said that he was warned never to follow up an article he wrote this fall suggesting large profits being made by the university food service.

The Gazette is scheduled to appear early this spring as a biweekly and eventually, if successful, as a daily. The Organizers have raised about $1000--mostly donations. They need about two thousand dollars more and count on advertising from non-university bookstores, liquor stores, and other enterprises that are not permitted to advertise in the B.U. News