In the February 2005 issue, the "Tattler's" faculty advisor, Stephenie Vinch, found a sexually explicit cartoon in the issue offensive, and insisted that it be removed. The student editors refused to allow a "censored" version of the issue to be published, and appealed the decision to IHS principal Joe Wilson and ICSD superintendent Judith Pastel. Both Wilson and Pastel ultimately rejected the appeals, also finding the cartoon obscene. In the midst of the controversy, Vinch resigned her position as faculty advisor, and school publication of the "Tattler" ground to a halt. At one point principal Wilson ordered the "Tattler" office closed.