A VERY LIBERAL EDUCATION

"Koala TV", a student production at the University of California San Diego, is at the centre of an ongoing controversy:

Sexually explicit programming will no longer be allowed on the student-run closed circuit television station at the University of California, San Diego. The UCSD Associate Student Council voted Wednesday night to ban sex videos after listening to students debate the issue. The move by the council came after a pornographic video ran several times in the last few months. Steven York, who made the video and appears in it, calls the programming "Koala TV."

The council originally voted to ban sex videos over the weekend, but then declared the vote void on Monday, after members realized they had not followed parliamentary procedures.

Last week, the university television station last week aired lengthy footage of a student having sex with an adult actress, seven months after the show was pulled for racy programming.

"Koala TV," hosted by 22-year-old University of California, San Diego senior Steve York, returned to the air last Thursday evening. The show had been pulled in March when York stripped naked during a live broadcast even though the student government asked the station to refrain from showing nudity.

A previous episode showing York performing sex acts with an unidentified woman resulted in a flood of calls and e-mails to the station from concerned students and parents.

According to TV news reports, York is defying the council citing free speech guarantees; the sexually explicit material continuing to be broadcast.