(AgapePress) - Conservative students at Miami University of Ohio are calling it a victory for "information diversity."  After years of only having one source of cable news -- CNN -- students living on the Miami University campus now have the alternative of switching to the Fox News Channel.

It wasn't as easy as one might think. Students complained continuously to university officials about the short-sightedness of it. The chairman of the College Republicans, Aaron Sanders, even wrote a column demanding that Miami provide the Fox News Channel.

Sanders told American Family Radio News, "Students in the dorms were subjected to four different versions of CNN -- Headline News CNN, CNN FN... and there was not one other channel, [not] one other source of news." So basically, Sanders continued, they were getting the same story from four different people. "And, you know, CNN is like most [of the] media -- it tends to be a little bit biased, and our students wanted the more fair and balanced views of Fox News."

However, Sanders said the administration at Miami steadfastly refused to allow the addition of the Fox News Channel. He said the school's cable provider, DirecTV, cited a price of $8,000 to add the channel -- and officials said that was "too steep."

"[W]e felt that was a minimal price to pay for -- [as] we termed it -- 'information diversity' -- since that's the big buzz word around campuses these days,"  Sanders said.

However, in response to the student complaints -- and some bad press -- the university eventually caved in, and recently added Fox News to dorm cable system. Sanders called it a big victory for campus conservatives.

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