Fairfield’s top faculty body, the Academic Council, sent a strong message of support of The Mirror’s freedom of expression this week and voted to recommend moving the paper out of Student Affairs and into the Academic Affairs division.

In his “Walk of Shame” column, “He Said” Chris Surette walked the walk.

And now, readers are talking the talk.

Tell those who cry “censorship” when you refuse to give them a platform for their preaching the same thing I do: Go start a LiveJournal. They are not entitled to a place in your paper any more than they are entitled to a spot on national TV.

In a response to Dean Pellegrino, editor in chief of The Mirror Tom Cleary held that the recent publication of the controversial He Said and “FML” columns did not break the contract with the university or violate standards set in the Code of Ethics and Code of Procedure.

A compilation of statements posted on The Mirror office walls on Sept. 30, 2009.

Charges have been filed against Chris Surette.