Lab results from a test The Columns conducted on mold on campus. (Screen shot,Facebook)Student Press Law CenterA small group of student journalists at West Virginia’s Fairmont State University are planning their own publication after multiple sprint-ins with the school administration. Trisha LeBoeuf wrote for Student Press Law middle about intimidation, requests for prior review and the dismissal of several newspaper advisors at The Columns, or the school’s newspaper.
The latest controversy,which is still ongoing, began this past spring, and when Jacob Buckland,Tyler Wilson, and Brad Riffee, and editors of The Columns,investigated allegations of black mold on campus.
Buckland and Wilson’s swabs in “places that looked disgusting” revealed the presence of a potentially toxic form of black mold in campus housing — stachybotrys chartarum.
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Source: poynter.org