Notre Dame Student Editor Resigns Over Cartoon

From the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette:

Notre Dame newspaper editor resigns over gay-bashing cartoon

SOUTH BEND – An editor of the independent student newspaper for the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College has resigned and the paper has discontinued a cartoon strip that made a joke about violence against gays.

The Observer newspaper published a letter of resignation and apology Monday from Kara King, an assistant managing editor. King says miscommunication with another editor led to the strip running without her first reviewing the material.

The cartoon depicted a conversation that says a baseball bat is the "easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable."

The Observer also reported Monday that it will no longer publish the comic strip, "The Mobile Party." The authors of the strip apologized in a letter published Friday.

The schools are in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.