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AM Hucks: Student Editor Confronts Naked Truth

Alison Atwell didn't get a honeymoon period to adjust to her new role as editor-in-chief of the North Idaho College Sentinel this fall. Before the first issue of the student newspaper hit the streets Monday, she had to decide whether to publish a story that involved student elections, nudity and possible faculty censorship. She opted not to do so. And not because she's prudish. She simply didn't want to give two ASB Senate wannabes an edge in today's election by publishing a story about the controversy in which they were involved. Seems the pair caused a stir by tacking up campaign posters around campus showing them striking poses in the nude, except for a strategically placed leaf, which may or may not have been Photoshopped in. Travis and Spence (no last names are given) are buff. They look like wrestlers. But some instructors complained that their naughty humor was sexual harassment. Higher-ups ordered the posters taken down. However, they reappeared later with the wording "Censored by NIC administration." The flap landed in Editor Atwell's lap. She told Huckleberries that she listened as her editors weighed the pros and cons of running the story right before the NIC elections. She also considered veteran Sentinel adviser Nils Rosdahl's recommendation to print the photos and the story. In the end, she opted not to do so, deciding instead to downplay the controversy in her Chokecherries column. She plans to tell all in the next edition in two weeks. Welcome to advanced journalism, Alison



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.