The paper printed some unflattering editorials about the school administration
and the school president. They had objections to some of the ideas put forth by
the school and that the administration was not attempting to listen to the
concerns of the students. In retaliation to these allegations, the school
president has decided to eliminate the journalism department. This decision 
caused an avalanche of responses from students and faculty alike. In an article
in the Wildcat (Cuts Raise faculty eyebrows, questions by Kelly Canright),
Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs Paul Sypherd said "students
from that [journalism] program don't acquire jobs in the media." He also pointed
out that a recent report written by the College of Behavioral Sciences, where the
journalism department is located under, said that the program was not  cost
effective and that the program was not sufficiently preparing students for jobs
in the communication field. This surprises the journalism officials who believe
the report to be inaccurate in many ways. The journalism department recently had
a job fair where 20 major communications companies were represented. Many of the
graduates from the journalism department have gone on to successful jobs in the
media, three graduate students in the department recently won Pulitzer Prizes and
according to journalism officials the school is cost effective paying for many of
its fees and technology with sources other than the university (Canright) <br>
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