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Finally, if a "big issue" is what one needs, the censoring of Bloom County is as big as they get. Everyone loves to laugh at the Moral Majority, but is is scary indeed when the left--the guardians of free speech--choose the same tactic. Certainly the offending strip was boring, even trite, on the day in question, but its moral value was not for The Crimson to judge. The hypocrisy of such a stand for press self-censorship is terrifying indeed. The fact that Harvard students responded as they did suggest a rather healthy grasp of important issues...
...lack of response to campus questions like the Core Curriculum, summer storage policy, divestment, and asbestos in University buildings? It is true that there are no guarantees that letters to The Crimson's page two will effect change in any of these areas. But the contrast with the fervent Bloom Country response is particularly striking...
There have been exceptions to the rule. The debate over financial aid to nonregistrants, for example, prompted a batch of articulate, well-informed letters. But even this issue brought in far fewer than the dozen-plus letters we received concerning Bloom Country--not to mention the phone calls...
Humor, of course, has its place in The Crimson and we hope and believe we can stand being poked fun at, when it is deserved. Yet some of the correspondence on Bloom County transcended humor, or even snideness. People seemed concerned more than anything to use The Crimson as a punching bag--a phenomenon that has not gone unnoticed in the past. One gentleman commented that "no one gives a damn what the Crimson's policies are," an indication of the slightly schizophrenic light in which the paper is seen: the people who say "nobody gives a damn...
...Bloom County proved grade-A material for this community's pundits. And for others, it was a good excuse to give us a kick in the pants. But surely everyone concerned would benefit more if, in the future. Harvard minds focused on what even Berke Breathed would probably consider more important issues...