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A play about a student’s suicide has been deleted from San Jacinto College literary magazine because the chancellor at the Houston based school said the language was too offensive. As a result, Robert Earl Milstid’s one-act play “Just a Phase,” about a 17-year-old student whose social and domestic woes drive him to a beer-soaked suicide, has been dumped from next week’s issue of the Prism magazine. The play drew big crowds last year during three performances, received good reviews in the campus newspaper and in December earned the author an Excellence in Play Writing honor for originality at the American College Theater Festival in Denton. Chancellor Tom Sewell said he would have considered barring the campus production had he known about its content beforehand.