I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.

Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.

Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

-Sara Whitmer

@weekendspy I'm sharing this because my daughter is an alumni of IU even though I live in NZ
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS - Indiana Daily Student
@weekendspy Makes me proud to be a Purdue graduate. They've come along way since 1970.

@weekendspy

History, stories of bravery and solidarity.

@weekendspy I was on the copy desk at the IDS one summer in the late 80s. Good to see Perdue stepping up.
@weekendspy @bright_helpings This is amazing. The university's Orwellian insistence that it respected students’ First Amendment Rights while simultaneously trampling students’ First Amendment Rights must have been humiliating for the minion who had to write that press release.
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus

The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.

The Herald-Times