NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- A cartoon published in the campus newspaper of Central Connecticut State University this week prompted students and faculty to demand the editor's resignation.

The Recorder, a student-run campus newspaper, printed a three-frame comic, titled "Polydongs," features two characters who mention locking a "14-year-old Latino girl" in a closet and urinating on her.

Students and faculty are outraged and are planning to call for the removal of the campus newspaper editor on Friday.

The university's Student Media Board is scheduled to meet on Friday in a special session to discuss the new cartoon. Members of the Latin American Association and Latin American Student Organization plans to gather in a separate meeting the same day to discuss their response.

The Recorder came under fire in February for an opinion article titled "Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It," satirizing sexual assault as an experience that benefits "ugly women."

The head of the school's communication department said he is not only filing a complaint against the newspaper staff, but calling on the university's president to step down for not responding fast enough.

"I feel intimidated when they issue these types of publications," said communications professor Dr. Serafin Mendez.

Mendez told Eyewitness News that he has filed a judicial complaint against the CCSU newspaper and its staff for publishing the cartoon.

"We have literally hundreds of students who have come to us who are scared, who are hurt, who are sad," he said. "it's not funny. I cannot see the funny part of it."

Mendez called the cartoon hate speech and said the repeated wrongs show a lock of sensitivity by the paper and a lack of concern by the campus leadership.

"These problems are just a reflection of the poor quality of leadership that we have at the university," he said.

Mendez and his supporters are calling for the president's resignation and said that they will appeal to the Board of Trustees, Legislature and governor for action.

In a statement to the campus community, the university's president said he is offended by the cartoon and wants greater diversity on the newspaper staff and a full-time faculty member mentoring and teaching the staff.

The president said he also wants a journalism major and is cutting university advertising in The Recorder.

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