 SMITH'S REPORT America's Only Monthly Revisionist Newsletter - Number 41 - March 1997
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Volunteers are key in growing Campus Campaign. Ads for CODOHWeb shake ADLLast month's issue of Smith's Report underlined the importance of CODOH's recent volunteers in carrying out the ongoing Campus Project: inserting small, simple, devilish ads that challenge the Thought Police and point university newspaper readers--virtually all of whom have easy access to the Internet--directly to CODOH's revisionist Website, CODOHWeb, where they find a cornucopia of thought-provoking, Hoax-busting articles and graphics. CODOH volunteers have been busy placing ads and doing follow-up at colleges around the country. One in particular, Pennsylvanian Karl Streidieck, has shown students and faculty at one American university--Penn State--that he won't take no for an answer. Streidieck, who graduated from Penn State in 1966, is a veteran CODOH activist who three years ago arranged for CODOH's ad challenging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to run in the Penn State student paper, The Daily Collegian. The second week in February Streidieck submitted CODOH's ad offering "46 Unanswered Questions about the World War II 'Gas Chambers'" to the Daily but was turned down. He then submitted our current ad, "The Revisionist Controversy" (see SR41). The Daily's business manager, Joanne Charyton, explained: "I didn't feel the content was appropriate for our paper. Based on the fact that I was here when it ran before, I knew I wasn't going to run it [this time--ed.]." Charyton was referring to the scandal that erupted when Streidieck helped us run my essay-advertisement, "A Revisionist Challenge to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum," in the 1993/94 academic year. In a private conversation Charyton told Streidieck that she had gone to CODOHWeb's site and perused our materials and found the "theories" proposed there "offensive." When asked which of those "theories" she found offensive, she terminated the conversation. CODOH's man on the spot wasn't giving up just yet. He fired off a letter to the editor of The Daily Collegian protesting the refusal and setting forth CODOH's position on the Holocaust story. Editor-in-chief Jason Alt observed: "We never refuse to run a letter because an editor or group of editors disagrees with the point the writer is making." Of course not. Nevertheless, he didn't print the letter. Streidieck was through waiting. He armed himself with a stack of revisionist leaflets, including CODOH's "The Holocaust Controversy: The Case for Open Debate" [see page 8] and a big, two-color sign lettered "Censorship at PSU: Read what the Collegian censor doesn't want you to see," and stationed himself at the entrance to The Daily Collegian offices to call public attention, first, to the paper's disregard for intellectual freedom and fairness; second, to CODOH and CODOHWeb. There was something of a hubbub while Streidieck handed out his leaflets, enough so that the timorous editors of The Daily Collegian felt themselves forced to report on the affair. The reporter who was assigned the story, Kelly Ruoff, volunteered that there was a bit of a "tumult" in the paper's office. Streidieck also learned that the reporter, as a young teen, had been living in Ohio when The Ohio State Lantern ran CODOH's full page ad and recalled vividly the state-wide controversy which followed. The text of that ad is the body of the leaflet Streidieck was now giving to students on the Penn State campus. Ruoff's story appeared first in the Digital Collegian, the Internet version of The Daily, then on the front page of its print edition (same date, same story--Feb. 19, 1997).
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