Alumni, journalists and others are taking to social media to denounce Indiana University after administrators fired the student media director and ordered the Indiana Daily Student to cease printing its newspapers .

In recent weeks, school administrators had urged former IU student Media Director Jim Rodenbush and student editors to stop putting news content in print. They wanted IDS's seven print editions per semester to contain only special content hinged on themes like homecoming and Thanksgiving.

Posts from the IDS's social media pages have garnered thousands of reactions and hundreds of comments since Rodenbush's Oct. 14 firing. The next day, the university ordered the publication to cease printing.

In a statement Oct. 15, IU Bloomington Chancellor David Reingold said the u

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