Rutgers University investigates satirical Hitler article under Jewish student's name
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Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., is investigating an incident in which a student-run satirical newspaper published an article called "What About the Good Things Hitler Did?" while using a real student's name and photograph, MyFoxNY reports.
Satirical Hitler article controversy at Rutgers: MyFoxNY.com
That student, Aaron Marcus, is Jewish and said he can't believe the paper would do something like that.
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"To say anything praiseworthy of someone like Hitler, and to have people actually believe it was coming from me even in a satirical manner is just really painful for me and my family," Marcus told MyFoxNY.
The article was in the student-funded Daily Medium newspaper. The article included lines like "give Hitler a little thanks."
"I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech, but I'm not a firm believer in impersonation and liable," Marcus told MyFoxNY.
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Marcus says his relatives were survivors of the Holocaust and has previously spoken out about what he has called an anti-Semitic environment on campus.
Rutgers' President, Richard McCormick issued a statement saying, "No individual student should be subject to such a vicious, provocative and hurtful piece, regardless of whether First Amendment protections apple to such expression."