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That point was apparently lost on those here at The Crimson who thought that refusing to publish a Playboy recruitment ad was the best way to attack immorality...
Some will argue that refusing to publish an advertisement infringes on free speech. Not really, for advertising is not free speech, and, in any case, the Playboy ad is not an opinion. As one editor noted at Sunday's in-house discussion of the ad issue, one must be able to disagree with an opinion, and the counter-argument to the Playboy solicitation is "No, a Playboy photographer will not be at the Somerville Holiday Inn this week...
...anything, I believe Harvard women are turned off by the ad and will react strongly against the magazine and all it may stand for. Like Genet, I believe that moral goals are achieved by getting everything out in the open and allowing the people to see and react against evil...
...majority at The Crimson believed they were furthering a noble cause by quashing the Playboy ad. People who read about The Crimson's decision around the country--everything that happens at Harvard goes national--will get a good chuckle, as will the editors of Playboy, who will once again be able to make the fallacious argument that they are persisting despite the oppression of a bunch of Harvard prudes...
Meanwhile, those who argued to pull the ad, satisfied with their victory, have not bothered to take their case to the rest of the Harvard population. Ironically, now that The Crimson's pages are pure, no one seems terribly worried about convincing women who might want to pose that what they're doing runs counter to everything for which women at Harvard and elsewhere have been fighting for decades...