BLOOMINGTON Purdue University's student newspaper stepped in to help Indiana University's student paper after the IU administration cut the Indiana Daily Student's print edition.
The Purdue Exponent delivered special edition copies of The Exponent to IU's Bloomington campus Friday in what they called "Operation Clandestine Delivery."
Kyle Charters, CEO and publisher of The Exponent, called the act "Student journalism solidarity" on X.
The delivery came after IU fired Jim Rodenbush, student media director, according to previous WRTV reporting.
The IDS reported that the media school directed its editors to only include homecoming stories in its upcoming homecoming issue and no other news.
Rodenbush told the media school he would not tell the paper's editors what to print, calling it cen