“I don’t see any other reason why the papers would be taken,” Gonzalez said. “It definitely feels like retaliation.” Around 3000 total copies of the March 20 issue were published and the 800 copies that were stolen are worth $400 to $500. Personally, it wouldn't make too much sense to me to even steal 800 newspapers from The Oracle due to there being 2,200 copies still available. If anything the two people that committed the crime has caused a minor inconvenience to the campus, and now the campus police are taking action. Vanessa Curry the paper faculty adviser said she is setting up a meeting between the student editors and the campus police chief to check on the open investigation.
Curry had this to say on the situation, “There’s nothing else in that paper that’s controversial,” she said. “That’s not to say that I think the SGA itself is involved … but I think it has to do with that story.”
Students attending Spokane Falls Community College have found them selfs in a similar situation. On Mar. 12 former Editor-in-Chief Chandler Pedersen found several newspapers that were damaged. Pedersen responded in kind by reporting the incident to campus police but no action was taken. On Apr.2 the new Editor-in-Chief Magdalena Clough found 200 newspapers missing; after replacing the missing papers they went missing once again the next day. Clough responded in kind by filing a report with campus security and on Apr. 5 filed a police report. Pedersen and Clough recently published a front-page article about sexual harassment allegations against the acting University President Darren Pitcher who resigned on February 26.
The Communicator's current paper editor Jason Nix believes the controversy over the past University President is the reason papers are missing. So far four hundred issues have disappeared representing one-third of The Communicator's total print order. The paper may be free for students but the actual loss amounts to $191 according to Nix.
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