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...past few weeks, Cambridge police have mounted a systematic attack on Avatar. By Monday night they had arrested some 40 students and Cambridge area residents who attempted to distribute the bi-weekly magazine. Most of the sellers were charged with selling "obscene literature." Curiously, the policemen increased their harassment while a spate of court cases to decide the extent of Avatar's social disutility was still pending. Actually, given their past performances, it is unlikely that the higher courts of the Commonwealth, much less the U.S. Supreme Court, would ever bar the frank, satirical publication. Were the courts to prove...
...action of local officials is open to censure on other grounds. Their wise decision yesterday to stop harassing and arresting the sellers of Avatar was hardly provoked by decent motives. They did not yield their hypocritical Victorian prejudices, but merely realized that they had clogged the City Jail. The courageous, staunchly libertarian stand taken by the several dozen Harvard students who sold Avatar in the wake of Monday's bust was undoubtedly one of the main reasons the officials compromised their spurious virtue...
Most of the 35 adults earn all or part of their living selling the Avatar, keeping about half of the 35 cents they get on each sale. Some, including Jim Kweskin, leader of the "jug band" which bears his name, have other sources of income. Nine or ten work full-time putting out the paper, Hansen said...
...Avatar staffers claim that the paper, which is published every two weeks, has a circulation...
...understand why they do it," he added, pointing to an article in the current issue, Avatar's 18th, containing a series of graphic epithets. "There's no point in writing like that. You wouldn't want your kid sister reading that...