ALBANY, May 2 - It did not take long for the editor in chief of the Middlebury College weekly student newspaper, The Middlebury Campus, to resign and apologize for publishing a doctored photograph in the March 17 issue portraying the college's next commencement speaker, Rudolph W. Giuliani, as Adolf Hitler.

But if she had the chance to do it over, Andrea Gissing, the former top editor who has taken "full responsibility" for the sardonic portrait of New York City's former mayor, said she might publish the piece again.

"I had spent a lot of time thinking about the illustration, going into it, and my decision to run that was not a light one," Ms. Gissing said in an interview on Monday. "It served the purpose of a political cartoon, which is to, you know, make people think about the issue and to react to it in a positive or negative way." Ms. Gissing resigned her job in an editorial in the March 31 issue, and cited internal reasons, not outside pressure.

Mr. Giuliani is still planning to speak, said Sunny Mindel, his spokeswoman.

Still, questions persist about whether there will be protests, either for or against Mr. Giuliani, as various letter writers to The Middlebury Campus have taken both sides in the debate. "There are people wondering if there will be demonstrations," said Philip G. Benoit, the school's spokesman. "Although I would not think it would be on that large a scale."