High School Racism Survey

Copies of an Iowa high school newspaper were removed after several complaints about a survey about racism in the paper.

City High School principal Mark Hanson removed copies of the Little Hawk Oct. 19 edition from the school. The paper included a survey that concluded 13 percent of students found blacks unfavorable and two percent found whites unfavorable.

The paper polled 350 students. The paper also published an editorial in the same issue "pleading for racism at City High to be addressed."

The survey along with the editorial caused three near-fights, according to the school principal.

"Each one was spawned after they had read these articles," Hanson said. "If I think there is something endangering student safety, I'm going to do something about it."