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The national organizations of the Young Democrats of America and College Democrats of America will each send two superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Until now, all four of those superdelegates have remained uncommitted, but today YDA’s Crystal Strait announced for Obama.
<b>Correction, May 19:</b> YDA has three superdelegates. Two of the three have endorsed — Strait chose Obama, as noted above, and Francisco Domenech endorsed Clinton in January. YDA president David Hardt has announced that he will make no endorsement before the end of the primaries.
A couple of weeks ago we reported that a “task force” appointed by a vice president of Wichita State University would be reviewing the operational and editorial practices of the WSU student newspaper, the Sunflower. It was announced that the paper’s student government funding for the upcoming fiscal year would not be disbursed until that review was complete.
That task force has now been appointed, and several other developments have taken place.
The task force will be made up of two students, two administrators, two faculty members, and the university’s general counsel.
Outgoing editor Todd Vogts attended the first task force meeting last week and said afterward that the faculty members seemed to be taking a stand in support of the newspaper’s first amendment rights.
In a potentially significant development, the university’s president has pledged that Sunflower funding will be disbursed as originally scheduled, and will not be contingent on the task force’s findings as originally announced.
The task force will meet again in the fall.
studentactivism.net 
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