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Article: Crowd occupies Daily Californian office over controversial cartoon
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- September 19, 2001
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Eric Ostrem
University Wire
09-19-2001
(Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- More than 100 protesters clogged the lobby of The Daily Californian office for several hours late Tuesday night demanding an apology for an editorial cartoon printed in Tuesday's edition.
The protesters refused to leave without an assurance that a formal apology would be printed in today's edition of the paper.
In a statement prepared by the Senior Editorial Board -- the student editors who make policy decisions for the independent paper -- the board said it "will not issue an apology" for the cartoon, which "in no way reflects the views and opinions of The Daily Californian."
By press time, the ...