The University of Montana Kaimin's "Bess Sex Column" is causing a stir on campus after a law professor’s attempts to get the university to cease its publication. UM law professor Kristin Juras wants the Kaimin, a student newspaper, to stop printing the column, written by student Bess Davis, and has threatened to take the issue to state higher education officials.  Professor Juras argues that the school can exercise editorial control because the Kaimin is “funded by taxpayer dollars and tuition fees for an educational purpose, and they have to stay within that purpose.”  Davis and Kaimin editor, Bill Oman counter that Juras’s request would constitute an infringement on free speech and that the Kaimin’s primary mission is journalism, not education. UM President George Dennison said he doesn't want to get involved in censorship, but that the controversy is more about a "discussion of taste and judgment."

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