Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Collegiate Athletic Association, using Judge Streit's files, decided that Rupp had 1) knowingly used ineligible players, and 2) condoned cash payments to his stars. Forthwith the N.C.A.A. cracked down, barred Kentucky's basketball team from intercollegiate N.C.A.A. play for one year. Kentucky accepted the ban, but had a sassy answer for the N.C.A.A.: a vote of confidence in Rupp, who stays on as Kentucky's coach...
Although the Boston NAACP in a telegram to President Conant, protested the showing, and several students advised the City of Cambridge to ban the film, the show went on twice on both Monday and Tuesday nights...
...advertising of such muti (medicine) has just been forbidden by the South African government. Ingredients for this muti are usually obtained by ritual murders, of which there have been a dozen in Basutoland alone this year. The witch doctors in convention assembled asked the government to lift the advertising ban on muti. They forgot to explain why it is all right for them to use human organs, but wrong for the "quacks" (nonmembers of the Dingaka Association) to do so. They also forgot to tell where they get the human parts for their own prescriptions...
Were there the slightest possibility of the production arousing riots and violence, we would not protest a ban. After all, the most cherished liberties are not so sacrosanct that governments cannot limit them in the public safety. But this will not be the case at New Lecture Hall. The only group prone to organize a protest in the past, the Boston NAACP, learned that printed warnings distributed to students beforehand seem to nip supposed prejudicial reaction in the bud. The NAACP, in fact, proposes to question the members of today's audience on their reaction, to see whether their hunch...
...every day, to take the broad view toward tolerance. But maybe the issue should be put in their own terms: there are many people who would like to see Birth of a Nation and judge its art and propaganda for themselves. They may not be vocal now, but a ban will surely create considerable ill-will. It will take a good deal of tolerance on their part to dilute the bitterness that comes when small groups or individuals try to force their standards of taste on others...