Notre Dame Apologizes for cartoon joking about gay bashing

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<p>"The independent student newspaper for the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College has published a staff editorial apologizing for a cartoon that made a joke about violence against gays.</p>

<p>The editorial Friday says The Observer newspaper created an “egregious” error in judgment when it published the cartoon Wednesday…</p>

<p>The cartoon depicts a conversation that says the “easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable” is with “a baseball bat.”
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<p>I appreciate the apology. Yet I was not surprised that it ran in a student newspaper at University of Notre Dame. They consistantly come up as one of the least glbt-friendly campus.</p>