F Bomb

Student journalists at Kansas City, Kansas, Community College’s student newspaper, The Advocate, got a lesson in public outrage last week. Too bad it wasn’t over an investigative exposé of the student’s healthcare options or an editorial on convicted felon and recently re-elected Board of Trustees member Clyde Townsend. Rather, it was a not-very-funny cartoon variation on the old “No Fat Chicks” lines. The cartoon – part of The Advocate’s sex issue – was pulled off a wire service by the paper’s editor-in-chief, Katherine Steele. “The page had a history of condoms on it, so I thought this would fit in,” Steele, 20, tells us. “We printed an article on abortion last semester, and nobody really cared at all, so I wasn’t really expecting an uproar.”