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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oehmler said that the Ad Board has alreadyconsidered his case and has found him innocent ofany wrongdoing...
...told Sam they were recommending that he be put on disciplinary probation (which leaves a permanent mark on one's record) and submitted this recommendation to the Ad Board. Two days before Sam left for Christmas the University sentenced him with probation. And sent him, a local hero from upstate New York, home in disgrace after his first semester at Harvard--for something he didn't really...
...first is the "Report of the Committee on Relationships Between the Harvard Community and United States Intelligence Agencies" (Intelligence Agency Guidelines). The guidelines contained in the report were announced by President Derek Bok on May 20, 1977. The guidelines reflect the position of the Ad Hoc Committee and the President, with which I fully agree, that Harvard as an institution should not prohibit the acceptance of research support from the CIA or any other agency, so long as the terms and conditions associated with the funds conform with institutional research policies and the existence of the agreement is made public...
...First Amendment's freedom-of-speech guarantees. The Supreme Court, notes Columbia Law Professor Vincent Blasi, "has clearly said that commercial advertising is not protected to the same degree as political debate or artistic expression." Indeed, the court upheld without comment the 1971 ban on broadcast cigarette ads. Since then, however, the Justices have been sheltering commercial speech more aggressively. In 1980 the court struck down a New York rule that sought to conserve energy by banning utility ads promoting electricity use. Before the Government may regulate truthful advertisements for legal products, said the majority, it must show that...
...answer for the A.M.A. is not to ban ads but "to speak out more," says Attorney Floyd Abrams, a free-speech specialist who has advised media and tobacco companies. "First Amendment theory says that if speech is troubling, we counter it with speech that responds." Undaunted, the A.M.A. will soon begin drafting model legislation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court could signal its current thinking on the subject of ad bans in the next few months. The high bench is expected to rule on a First Amendment challenge to a Puerto Rican law that bans local advertising by the island's legal...