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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CRIMSON SUNDAY night voted not to run the above ad presented to its offices by Playboy Magazine. This decision is wrong for a number of reasons...
...truth is never hurt by the increase of information. Yet by refusing to run the ad, the majority of Crimson editors have chosen to hide the issue from their readers by not showing either side...
...doing so, The Crimson underestimates the moral and intellectual capacity of its readers to decide for themselves whether recruiting women from the Ivy League is a good thing. By quashing the ad, The Crimson is afraid to let its readers make a decision based on maximum information, forcing them instead to decide on a lack of knowledge...
Crimson editors saw the ad, and decided that it wasn't "socially acceptable;" they then prevented their readers from going through the same process. The Crimson should not be protecting society from itself. That is not the job of a newspaper...
...running the ad, the majority of The Crimson has attempted to determine what is socially acceptable not only for the entire Crimson, but for all of Harvard's 6000 students. It is wrong for any group to decide what is socially acceptable, and we resent the majority's decision to define social acceptability by suppressing, rather than encouraging open expression...