Teen journalist Haggard was determined "to right wrongs"

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Interesting piece in the Cincy Enquirer (via Jim Romenesko) today about Ted Haggard as a high-school journalist by a former classmate.

(snip) (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45)
Cindy Schroeder says she and Ted Haggard "saw ourselves as the school's Woodward and Bernstein" in the 1970s. Schroeder was editor-in-chief of her high school paper and Haggard -- the fallen evangelical leader -- was her managing editor. "In recent months, I've struggled to reconcile the image of the closeted, gay-bashing fallen leader ...with the idealistic, fun-loving, sensitive guy I knew in high school," writes Schroeder. "The Ted Haggard that I knew in high school would shun the hypocritical, homophobic dogma of Pastor Ted. He would become a model for the acceptance of others, regardless of their sexuality." (snip)

(snip) (http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070215/EDIT01/702150323/1090)

"Thirty-three years ago, my name was linked with the future religious superstar's in court depositions and news accounts, when we wrote about the sexual problems of our fellow teens. For much of our senior year, Ted and I were embroiled in a fight for a free high school press and our journalism adviser's job.

It was 1974, and the Watergate scandal was threatening to topple Richard Nixon's presidency. As the managing editor and editor-in-chief of our high school paper at Yorktown High School near Muncie, Ind., Ted and I saw ourselves as the school's Woodward and Bernstein."