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Allison has, of course, expressed deep concerns about the Engelhard issue, though he will not do anything about them. In fact, he has decided to form a committee to look into the matter and report to him in three months. The committee's functions include proposing criteria for raising funds and naming "that will meet the school's continuing financial requirements, respect the interest of all parties and avoid all unnecessary controversy...
...study suggests improving the mortgage market by setting the usury rate at the market lending rate, providing state subsidies for lower interest rates, publishing mortgage terms and lending criteria for all banks, involving the community in the loan process, and strengthening anti-discrimination laws and the use of affirmative action program by banks...
...more carefully selected. Few are otherwise unemployed, unless they are retired. Many have been volunteer Santas in their communities. Department stores, in their usually turn to the Santas who worked there the previous year, or to agencies like Western Temporaries. Patience and love of children are the primary criteria in hiring...
...base, the decision of the majority stemmed from a judgement that the Philosophy Playboy respresents, and the way in which it wished to treat Radcliffe students, are offensive. Surely there are no other criteria: the ad was not deceptive, nor libelous, nor dangerous to the social order; it did not directly promote the economic or political subversion of the would-be models, nor did it compel them to do anything against their wills. It simply was likely to offend many readers, as it offended a majority of the staff...
...take out a political advertisement, explaining its views without promoting its goods. Yet now, there is a new attitude--one which attacks an advertiser's philosophy rather than his actions, one which relies more on the vague notiom of "of- fensiveness" of the advertiser's thinking than on traditional criteria of the injustice of his or her deeds. It is the type of thinking that could easily be translated into a means of censoring unpopular beliefs, without having to face the rigorous test of proving a specific, correctable injustice. It is a dangerous way for a newspaper to think...