CU's solution punishes students

Students at CU-Boulder can't get college credit for working at their college publication anymore, according to The Associated Press.

The AP reported that the school will no longer offer college credit to students who work for The Campus Press. This comes in the aftermath of a February piece entitled, "If it's war the Asians want..."

Wow, really? Eliminating school credit for the school paper is a solution? This only hurts the school's publication and journalism students, and does nothing to address the issue of a very stupid editorial decision to run a poorly written satirical piece.

So what will come out of this decision?

• Less reason for students to write for The Campus Press.
  What reason do students have to work for the school paper when they have other classes to worry about?
  
• A decreased number of students writing for The Campus Press.
  With no incentive for students to work at the publication, they simply won't. When I was in college, it was one of the few things we could use to convince journalism students to write for the school paper. For some reason, the threat of jobs expecting experience didn't get to most of them.
  
• It lowers the quality of The Campus Press.
  Fewer writers mean fewer options to publish. You take what you get, be it bad or good.
  

Getting college credit encourages students to gain valuable experience before making their way into the real world.

C'mon CU, don't let the actions of one blowhard destroy an easy outlet for journalism students to gain experience.