Purdue student newspaper prints, delivers IU's student newspaper's canceled print edition

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Student journalism solidarity.

This is what Purdue University's paper, The Exponent, says it exemplified on Friday, Oct. 17 when they stepped in to help Indiana University's paper Indiana Daily Student after IU's administration cut their print edition.

The Exponent's CEO and publisher Kyle Charters posted on X saying that they delivered special edition Exponents to the IU campus.

Charters called it "Operation Clandestine Delivery," as a show of solidarity, and said it was a success.

The Exponent says the 3,000 papers delivered contain editorials from past and present IDS Editors.

IU fired student media director Jim Rodenbush last week and halted funding for the IDS print editions.

Rodenbush claims IU administrators told him printed editions of the Indiana Daily