Quinnipiac University is receiving national attention for an ongoing dispute between the administration and a group of student journalists. Earlier this year, a group of students who were on staff at the student newspaper, The Quinnipiac Chronicle, quit and launched their own independent publication, The Quad News. The administration responded by imposing a gag order on administrators, coaches and athletes that forbade them from cooperating with Quad News reporters. Most recently, the university formally threatened to ban the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), a national media advocacy group with over 200 member schools across the country, from campus for consorting with Quad News staff. While students report that the gag order has now been lifted, Quinnipiac has yet to formally rescind its threats to the SPJ.

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