In their nine-paragraph letter, in mid-November, the editorial staff at The Daily Northwestern student newspaper published a highly controversial apology. There was immediate backlash from veteran journalists. On behalf of journalism students and entry-level journalists, I want to offer an opinion.   The initial story was about student reporters at the school's daily paper who covered a protest. They photographed and printed comments from protesters at a College Republicans event where former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was due to give a speech. Sessions' has a colorful history of establishing racist policies and making hateful comments about people of color and those from marginalized communities. He was instrumental in formulating Border-control rules to detain Mexican immigrants and also remove babies and children from their mothers.…