UMKC’s UNews yanks September issue after culture editor rants about ‘ghetto Wendy’s’

For a student newspaper’s editor, nothing could be worse than having to pull an entire week’s issue from the racks. Unless it’s having to apologize with reference to the source of the controversy: an editorial with the headline, “Do I have a booger?”

That master work by UNews staffer Nikki

Bomgardner ran in the September 27 issue of the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s student newspaper. Two days later, all copies of the UNews disappeared from campus newsstands, and Bomgardner was posting an apology. How could a booger screed be so offensive? Well…