Word: aramco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to ban Aramco advertisements, as outlined in yesterday's majority editorial, is a just and wise one. Aramco's hiring policies and the Saudi Arabian government's treatment of "undesirables" are offensive to Jews and non-Jews alike. But it is another thing to petulantly declare, as the majority statement did yesterday, that "financial necessities prevent us from even considering rejecting advertisements on a regular basis...
First, any advertisement similar to the Aramco ad should be withdrawn, no matter what the financial ramifications. You can't have your cake and eat it, too; either The Crimson stands on principle in every case like Aramco or it must abdicate its right to make moral judgements...
...there is another objection to the majority view: anyone critically examining the ads The Crimson has carried this past year would be hard-pressed to find anything remotely approaching the Aramco situation. It is not surprising. Only in the rarest cases should The Crimson withdraw an advertisement; we should give our advertisers the benefit of the doubt in questionable cases and trust to our reader's discernment...
...Saudi government withdrew from an agreement with Johns Hopkins University to establish a medical school in Saudi Arabia when Hopkins submitted a list of site committee members that included the name of a Jewish physician. It's reasonable to assume that the phrase "if you're qualified" in the Aramco ad means, among other things, "if you're not Jewish...
Regardless of how the legal issue is resolved, it is morally wrong for any corporation or government agency to acquiesce in racism. The decision to withdraw the Aramco ad was based on this premise...