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...Alliance (BGLTSA). Smith lambastes “opponents” of Gladden J. Pappin ’04 for trying to censor Pappin, but then plays fast and loose with the exact identity of these opponents, potentially leading the reader to believe that the BGLTSA may advocate such censorship. This implication is simply false. The BGLTSA has not gone on record to ask that Pappin retract his statements, nor have we criticized The Crimson for printing Pappin’s letter (Op-ed, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality”, Dec. 9). It is irresponsible for Smith...
After Hazelwood, most observers understood that public high school students would be forced to shed quite substantial constitutional rights. The new ruling held that censorship “reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns” is permissible...
...notion of pedagogical censorship, though, is oxymoronic. State censorship of the press is not a pedagogical enterprise—it teaches nothing but disdain for the free press protections enshrined in the first amendment...
...sacred mission of the press is simply to inform. But when thorough, aggressive reporting paints an unflattering portrait of a college or its administrators, censorship at public universities inevitably arises. The so-called educators believe that the search for truth—the central goal of any university—is not so important when the truth-seekers are student reporters covering the administration...
...Vestiges of censorship in China and the blockbuster-driven nature of the publishing business encourage many Chinese authors to write knockoffs of foreign best-sellers. The copycat phenomenon is called dache (free ride) in publishing circles. Once Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient became a best-seller, writers quickly composed books with similar themes, calling them The Beijing Patient or The Chinese Patient. After Marguerite Duras' The Lover turned into a hot book, Beijing Lover, Singaporean Lover, Hong Kong Lover and English Lover-all written by women-soon saturated the market...