, “I’m angry for you all that you were subjected to [sic] abuse and restriction of editorial freedom by someone who should have just been a mentor.”The statement included a hefty list of accusations, most of which centered around Dr. Kenn Griffin, WSN’s editorial advisor. Griffin, the students say, belittled the staff, by referring to them as overly sensitive, and used racist, and transphobic rhetoric.
The students are waiting for their demands to be met before they will return to their virtual newsroom. Griffin did not respond to Jezebel’s request for comment, nor did any other member of WSN’s board.
Montes recalls staff asking: “Can you please just tell [Griffin], we don’t respond to it this way and it feels really uncomfortable for her to talk to us like that. [Hofstetter] would always bring those issues up to her and [Griffin] never really tried to understand, where we were coming from.”