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...want you to be somebody, and you can if you try . . . Pick up that phone and call now!" So exhorted the smiling face in the newspaper ad for a nationwide chain of vocational schools. Rarely has such an ordinary pitch received so much attention, but then this was no ordinary pitchman: it was Presidential Hopeful Jesse Jackson. The message, self-improvement through education, was vintage Jackson. The medium was a blitz of commercial advertisements for which Jackson was to receive an undisclosed payment...
This year, Coke began promoting itself for the number one spot on your breakfast table, with radio commercials, posters in stores and 25 cents-a-glass restaurant deals. All Coca-Cola U.S.A. bottlers can use the ad campaign. Although the campaign is popular from Wisconsin to Louisiana, so far local bottlers haven't picked...
Subway posters in Atlanta show a cup of Coke against a backdrop of a straw basket and a red checkered tablecloth. Usually something can be served on a checkered cloth only if Timmy and Lassie and Andy and Opie would eat it; but if the latest ad blitz is as successful as Santa was, the colorizing fanatics going after these shows will soon be dyeing breakfast beverages brown...
...immaturity can go virtually unpunished as far as Harvard is concerned. First, it is ludicrous to think that after the attack on the building and the threatening phone call, the individual victim would find an additional phone call a "light-hearted joke." Such poor judgement is not, as the Ad Board requires, like those "personal characteristics" which warrant the suspension of the original punishment. Secondly, the time between the punishment and the recent decision has not allowed sufficient time for Williams to effectively respond to the probation...
Finally, the greater consequence of the Ad Board's recent decision is to ignore the threatening racial nature of the Currier House incident. Williams shared a room with Jack Patterson, the student who placed the first call, stating, "Negro hit squad strikes again," and who subsequently had to withdraw for one year. Even though Williams did not specifically use the term "Negro" in his phone call, the two calls had the similar effect of inciting fear in the individual victim. We fail to see justification for the Ad Board's division of the three actions in terms of the racial...