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Editors Suspended Over Decision to Print Controversial Cartoon

Updated: January 7, 2009
The U of I student newspaper has suspended two of its top editors after they reprinted a controversial cartoon that has sparked violence across the Muslim world. Editor-in-Chief Acton Gorton and opinions editor Chuck Prochaska are off the job for two week

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