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needing something to report on, write stories for their papers. Please consider that they are thinking of their professors, their grades, and their reputations. I think this could raise problems, not at all that they are bad reporters, when covering someone whose opinions are so far from the campus mainstream. So all-in-all I looked at the subject's slight importance in society at large, possible problems with WP's policies about coverage of living persons, and the possible weakness of campus newspaper reporting and decided to suggest deleting the article as the best thing for WP. Of course I know that some people will disagree.
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