College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds

“The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at one of America’s most prominent universities, is facing a challenge unlike any in its 152-year history,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Students—particularly those without U.S. citizenship—are asking to have their names removed from articles for fear of backlash by immigration officials.”

“Some requests are simple: Take down a byline from an old opinion column. Others ask editors to scrub entire articles from websites. In other instances, students who might have been quoted in a published story now want their names removed.”