Important lessons on journalism were learned this week when a student editor at a local Christian college defied his college’s president to get news out.
Alex Green, editor-in-chief of the Bryan College Triangle, planned to publish a story when he found out that one of his Biblical studies professors, David Morgan, had left the university after being charged with attempted child molestation.
Morgan was accused of meeting two underage girls at a gas station in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., by officers in an FBI sting. He resigned this summer. An official statement from the college gave a benign reason for his departure, saying he left to “pursue other opportunities.”
When Green, 22, got the police records, he waffled about what to do with them. He discussed it with other student journalists, with his advisors and, finally, with the college’s president. Bryan President Stephen Livesay decided to kill the story. The president said the school didn’t know if the charges against the well-respected teacher were true.
But rumors were already circulating on campus, Green said.