Issue of Illinois Student Publication Banned As ‘anti-semitic

The administration of the Illinois Institute of the Illinois Institute of Technology here today banned further distribution of the issue of a student publication, “Listening,” charging the issue was “anti-Semitic.” Four hundred copies of the magazine had already been circulated before the ban went into effect. The magazine carried a poem attacking high prices in the campus bookshop, using as a headline the term “Jew’em” coupled with a pornographic word.

Rich Wackerlin, one of the editors of the magazine, promising “we will try not to do it again,” was quoted, however, as saying that the controversy leading to the ban has not hurt the publication. “We didn’t lose,” he said. “Our publicity has risen, an new advertisers want to get in. We are sorry a happened. It is often difficult to put out magazine which appeals to the student body and will be agreeable, at the same time, to the administration.”