NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- A college student who wrote an opinion piece making light of rape has been removed from the campus newspaper.

Opinion editor John Petroski apologized to Central Connecticut State University students on Monday during a town hall meeting on campus.

Petroski wrote an article, "Rape Only Hurts Of You Fight It," appeared in last week's edition of The Recorder.

He said the article was not meant to hurt anyone and that he now understands he went too far.

"I've been receiving a lot of e-mails from people that were very hurt by this and it's changed my mind," Petroski told Eyewitness News. "I'm not going to joke about rape anymore."

Petroski will be allowed to continue writing for The Recorder on a limited basis, but he will no longer be on the paper's staff.

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