The Hatchet’s editorial board responds to incidents of theft regarding entire stacks of Hatchets distributed across campus, and notes how these actions hurt both readers and the paper itself.

Last Thursday, The Hatchet received a series of reports of individuals taking entire stacks of issues of the paper and moving them to either the nearest recycling container or to unknown locations. We find these actions distressing, and want to remind those individuals that taking entire stacks of papers is stealing from both the community and from our institution.

Stealing entire stacks of Hatchets with the intention of preventing other students from reading them is just that – stealing. Every Monday and Thursday, we try to provide students, faculty and administrators with news and other information both online and in print. But when people across campus can’t pick up a hard copy of The Hatchet because the papers are missing, those individuals who moved the papers have essentially stolen from the community.