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"  Remember that time the First Amendment was a thing? Cool! Because a New Mexico community college forgot real quick. Yesterday the Central New Mexico Community College&amp;#039;s Chronicle was pulled from the stands over its &amp;quot;sex issue,&amp;quot; which apparently featured sexuality resources; persons-on-the-street revealing their favorite sex positions; a consumer guide to sex toys; a guide to &amp;quot;safe, sane and consensual&amp;quot; bondage and S&amp;amp;amp;M; and a feature on abstinence. All of which goes down in college dorm rooms everywhere, right? Or did I just go to a weird college? (JK, it happens everywhere.) After the staff of the paper were roundly chastised by a CNM dean for its &amp;quot;raunch&amp;quot; factor (although a journalism professor in residence insisted that it was &amp;quot;incredibly tame by student press sex edition standards,&amp;quot; and frankly, I believe him), the Internet exposed the story nationally as a total First Amendment violation. Shortly afterwards, the college&amp;#039;s president, Kathy Winograd, re-instated the paper immediately and replaced it on campus facilities. &amp;quot;Our bad!&amp;quot; (Except that no official apology was offered.)  Winograd is now saying that the so-called &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; reason that the paper was pulled was because the abstinence feature included a quote from a high school student, which required legal clearance before it was printed. However, a statement made by the college at the time of the initial censorship read &amp;quot;CNM felt the content was offensive and not appropriate for the educational mission of CNM.&amp;quot; Yet another issue revolved around the possible spending of college funds on the sex toys used in this issue of the paper. The Chronicle&amp;#039;s editor in chief says that the issue is heavily focused on sex education, so you have to wonder precisely what&amp;#039;s going on in administrator&amp;#039;s minds when things like this go down on campus. I mean, isn&amp;#039;t it better for students to be informed when they engage in any sexual behavior?  Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslaw Photo via Thinkstock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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