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Article: Group calls for Ka Leo editors to resign due to cartoons
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- March 11, 2004
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An organization of black students at the University of Hawaii-Manoa is calling for an apology and the resignation of student newspaper editors and a cartoonist over a series of editorial cartoons that offended blacks, Jews, gays and lesbians on campus.
About 50 members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and gay, lesbian and transgendered organizations met with the student Board of Publications last night on the campus.
Bridgit Williams, a student and member of the black student organization Power 96, said the cartoons were "deeply offensive" and "culturally insensitive."
"Aloha is not the only spirit manifested on our campus," Williams said. "Contrary to the ...