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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...
...precedent, The Crimson had been willing to accept any ad that was not libelous, sexist or racist. These are standards imparted by the law, and should be the advertising restrictions in this paper. The Aramco ad is legal according to present federal guidelines and should have...
First, any advertisement similar to the Aramco ad should be withdrawn, no matter what the financial ramifications.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...
...decision by the majority of Crimson editors not to publish an advertisement from the American Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) runs counter to the objective criteria that this paper should use in determining whether or not an ad should appear...