Penn State removed nearly three dozen racks containing its independent student-produced newspaper from on-campus this week because politics-related ads on the racks violated school policy.

Even if it wasn’t their intention to censor the paper, they still did,” The Daily Collegian’s editor-in-chief said.

The issue centered around the news racks that distribute The Daily Collegian’s weekly print editions. For about two years, the paper, an independent non-profit published by Collegian Inc., has sold advertisements to display on its racks around campus.