VPAA candidate challenges coverage
Brennan Stebbins
Issue date: 11/6/09 Section: News
The third and final candidate for Missouri Southern's vice president for academic affairs post on Wednesday chastised The Chart for a story about a controversy he was involved in last spring.
Dr. Brian Chapman, a professor in the biology and marine biology department at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, resigned as provost at that school in April, a month after he was involved in a decision to remove photographs from a traveling exhibit appearing on that campus.
The exhibit, "The Century Project," contains nude portraits of more than 100 females, ranging in age from birth to 94, and includes written statements by the females about such topics as sexual assault and body augmentation. Officials at UNCW banned photographs of females under the age of 18 from being displayed, and the decision was widely criticized.
Chapman told an audience this morning at Southern that he took issue with a Chart online story from Oct. 21 which detailed the controversy and charges of censorship against UNCW officials and cited published reports from The Seahawk, the UNCW student newspaper.
"All you did is go over there and copy the story from the Seahawk," Chapman told a Chart reporter. "You didn't ask me."
All information in The Chart article was attributed to stories published by The Seahawk, and multiple attempts to reach Chapman for comment before the article was published were unsuccessful.
Asked if he wished to discuss the censorship issue Wednesday, Chapman responded: "No, I don't."
Chapman said his problem with The Chart's story was that he was not reached for comment. When asked how he wanted The Chart to cover the issue when he refused to discuss it, Chapman said he couldn't comment because of "legal situations."
The candidate also took exception to a sentence in The Chart article which stated UNCW was the only institution to ban photographs from the exhibit.
"The paper also noted that UNCW was the only institution to take such action since "The Century Project's" inception," The Chart article stated, citing The Seahawk.
Dr. Brian Chapman, a professor in the biology and marine biology department at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, resigned as provost at that school in April, a month after he was involved in a decision to remove photographs from a traveling exhibit appearing on that campus.
The exhibit, "The Century Project," contains nude portraits of more than 100 females, ranging in age from birth to 94, and includes written statements by the females about such topics as sexual assault and body augmentation. Officials at UNCW banned photographs of females under the age of 18 from being displayed, and the decision was widely criticized.
Chapman told an audience this morning at Southern that he took issue with a Chart online story from Oct. 21 which detailed the controversy and charges of censorship against UNCW officials and cited published reports from The Seahawk, the UNCW student newspaper.
"All you did is go over there and copy the story from the Seahawk," Chapman told a Chart reporter. "You didn't ask me."
All information in The Chart article was attributed to stories published by The Seahawk, and multiple attempts to reach Chapman for comment before the article was published were unsuccessful.
Asked if he wished to discuss the censorship issue Wednesday, Chapman responded: "No, I don't."
Chapman said his problem with The Chart's story was that he was not reached for comment. When asked how he wanted The Chart to cover the issue when he refused to discuss it, Chapman said he couldn't comment because of "legal situations."
The candidate also took exception to a sentence in The Chart article which stated UNCW was the only institution to ban photographs from the exhibit.
"The paper also noted that UNCW was the only institution to take such action since "The Century Project's" inception," The Chart article stated, citing The Seahawk.
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Southernwatch
posted 11/06/09 @ 2:59 PM CST
We might have to come back.
So let us get this right. He said:
"Somebody says you robbed a jewelry store. You didn't do it, you know who did it, but you cannot say who did it for reasons that are legal to protect that person and you so you get all the blame. (Continued…)
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