Passfan: Right, because YU cannot stop students from expressing their freedom of speech. That doesn’t mean they condone anything.
Just to clear things up. The Beacon has nothing to do with YU. Nothing! It was never an official publication. All of last year it was just people writing whatever they wanted. This year, since a fair number of students were involved, they successfully petitioned Stern’s student council to receive money as a student club. This means that they got t-shirts and money for pizza once a month or so. It still wasn’t an official YU publication. And everyone knew all along that this wouldn’t last, and that at some point their mission statement of being “censorship free” and not necessarily caring about Halacha would wind up with something happening that would end their status as a club. No one just thought it would blow up this badly.