News Date: Mar 10, 2010
The Gateway, a student paper at the University of Alberta, is considering issuing an apology after some students complained about an election-day humour piece criticizing campaign posters that referred to the "brown guy in this election" and labelled one candidate a "love interest in a Bollywood blockbuster." One student wrote to the paper that "just because racist jokes are meant in jest doesn't mean it's appropriate." One candidate says the paper was "pretty critical, pretty rude," but doesn't think the piece was meant to be racist, unlike what happened in the University of Calgary student election, where some posters were marked with racist graffiti. Edmonton Journal | Poster Slam