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This is to comment on the report in The Crimson (May 13) about the Ad Board's decision to discipline 14 students for disrupting the speech of a South African diplomat last March. It struck me as unfortunate, though not surprising, that the only criticisms of the Ad Board's decision your reporter was able to find in the Harvard community were from those who thought the punishment of probation too harsh rather than too feeble. The sad fact is that free speech at Harvard has been dying for some time and that this latest Ad Board ruling is further...
...almost an incitement. Wanna be able to snow you did something for The Movement? Blockade a speaker and Harvard will provide you with free documentary proof, suitable for framing. It's hard to say which is sillier, the belief that this constitutes effective punishment, or the fear of the Ad Board minority that it was too brutal. It would seem from this farcical episode that Harvard's authorities are divided between those who think it is wrong to defend free speech effectively and those who think it is wrong to defend free speech...
...would include a levy on all network and affiliate advertising carried in Florida. If 7% of a commercial's viewers are in Florida, for example, then the advertiser would be required to pay the state a 5% tax on 7% of the network's fee for running the ad. The network's affiliates in Florida would have to collect the tax for any local advertising...
Well, after a few rounds of hysterical laughter from my classmates and a curious call from the Ad Board, I decided there were easier ways of making money...
...report, prepared by an ad hoc committee, also recommended that Chancellor Joseph M. Duffey and the board of trustees ask the Defense Department and congressmen for a review of a policy prohibiting homosexual recruitment by the military...