NEWS
Nearly 2,000 issues of the UP‘s Nov. 9 issue were removed from their bins on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Of the 39 bins located on the Boca campus, all of the issues in 31 bins appear to have been thrown away in nearby trashcans. A police report was filed on Wednesday with the FAU Police Department.
Theft of newspapers, including ones that are free like the UP, is a crime.
“While most college newspapers are distributed without charge … they are certainly not ‘free,'” according to the Student Press Law Center’s website. “Among other expenses, student news organizations pay editorial staff to produce the newspaper, advertising staff to sell ads, printers to print it and circulation staff to distribute the finished product.”
Please contact the UP at [email protected] or (561) 297-2960, or the Police Department at (561) 297-3500, to report any suspicious behavior that may have been connected to the theft.
