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UC San Diego investigates report of campus TV sex broadcast
Students may be disciplined despite positive feedback
Published Thursday, 24-Feb-2005 in issue 896
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The University of California, San Diego, is investigating whether a student-produced TV show violated any campus regulations by broadcasting a 10-minute segment showing a student having sex with an unidentified woman, a campus official confirmed.
The segment appeared earlier this month on Koala TV, a 90-minute program carried on the university’s Student Run TV, a closed-circuit station that can only be viewed on campus.
“We are disappointed that SRTV is being used for this kind of programming and these particular students have chosen to express themselves in this way,” said Carmen Vazquez, assistant vice chancellor for student life. “It’s an educational mission and I don’t necessarily see the educational value in this.”
The investigation, launched Feb. 11, should be concluded within a couple of weeks, Vazquez said, adding students involved could be disciplined if it is determined they violated campus policies.
Because it is a closed-circuit station, Federal Communications Commission rules apparently do not apply to SRTV. However, its campus charter calls for it to provide an “artistic medium within the context of FCC rules and regulations.”
The show is a video version of The Koala, a satirical magazine distributed on campus that has poked fun at blacks, Jews, Asians, Mormons and gays and carried graphic sexual photos and illustrations.
The station, funded by student fees, received about 100 emails as a result of the show, almost all of them positive, according to SRTV General Manager Chelsea Welch.
“Students dictate what gets put up on the air,” said Welch, a 21-year-old psychology major. “If a student has a problem with a show, they can have their own show to counter it. If a majority of students have a problem, we can take it off.”
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