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SPLC supports UT-Dallas journalists in starting independent paper amid clash with administration

From left: University of Texas at Dallas’s alternative student newspaper, The Retrograde, is staffed by distribution manager Lulu Cheng, human resource director Alexander Lawless, web editor Rainier Pederson, editor-in-chief Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez, managing editor Maria Shaikh and news editor Aimee Morgan. (Photo by Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune)
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In a dramatic and courageous stand for press freedom last fall, the staff of The Mercury at the University of Texas at Dallas went on strike following administrators’ controversial firing of their editor. Now, with the support of the Student Press Law Center and our partners, they operate a new student newspaper, The Retrograde, completely independent of the university.