EDITORIAL – Daily O’Collegian print staff justified

After a conflict over hiring practices, the print edition of Oklahoma State University’s… After a conflict over hiring practices, the print edition of Oklahoma State University’s student-run newspaper, The Daily O’Collegian, has decided not to provide content to the newspaper’s website any longer.

The dispute began when O’Collegian general manager Fritz Wirt (a nonstudent) hired a student writer for the website who the editor-in-chief, Jenny Redden, said she fired. Wirt claimed that the student was never told that he was fired from the print newspaper.

In Monday’s edition of the O’Collegian, Redden wrote, “This action goes against the heart of a student-run publication. If students control a publication, they must have the ability to hire and fire employees of that publication. When nonstudents are afforded this power, the publication is no longer student-run. It belittles me and the other editors in the newsroom, undermining our authority to the point that we are ineffectual. Staff members