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...AVATAR wouldn't be so dull if it were shorter, smaller and edited. The good material vanishes amid oblique and repetitious prose, endless columns of gray type and vast expanses of droning mysticism...
Good writing accounts for about 10% of the total acreage in issue number 19. Skip Ascheim's front-page report on proceedings of the Massachusetts Legislature's education committee is successful satire because it maintains an objectivity which most Avatar writing never achieves. Noting that few of the committeemen investigating misconduct of University of Massachusetts students could "speak English." Ascheim observes...
...Birth of a Witch Hunt" gives a view of a public controversy which no other publication could provide, and indicates how effective Avatar could be if it devoted more space to matters other than its own persecution...
Stephen Lerner's record of a night in jail, arrested for selling Avatar, is a model of the tone the paper's writers usually miss. However, by over-working the February 5 mass arrest on the six preceding pages--because of editorial lack of coordination--the effect of this fine piece is blunted...
Just as disturbingly, the City demonstrated that it responds to libertarian pressures from young people only if they go to Harvard. The large-scale involvement of Harvard students in Avatar precipitated yesterday's compromise, not the commitment of a few local hippies earlier this winter to the ideal of a truly free press. In all probability, the officials would have taken a lot more time to wise up if hippies had dominated yesterday's sell-in. In short, it is clear that local law enforcement officials, even in their belated wisdom, adhere to a shamefully inequitable policy of legal discrimination...