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House members had complained that door-to-door delivery violated students' privacy, comparing delivery to "televisions that can't be turned...
STUDENT publications were justifiably outraged last week when the masters of Kirkland and North Houses announced a ban on door-to-door distribution of "unsolicited" material. Although the motive for the ban--cutting down on garbage in the halls--sounds innocent enough, the new policy represents an unwarranted restriction on free speech at Harvard that ought not to be tolerated...
...fulfill its progressive mission, Perspective is morally obligated to make the effort of door-to-door distribution to all students. It can be assumed that most of the people who would take a Perspective out of a rack would already be sympathetic to our goals and ideas. For our purposes, this preaching to the converted has much less value than when less sympathetic people read a Perspective because we made the effort to bring it to their door. If we wanted merely to preach to liberals, we might as well curtail our Eliot House distribution and plow...
...that were lumped in a grubby pile, as bundles and bundles of unread Campus Calendars and Boston After Darks attest. All the major free publications on campus, including The Independent, the Perspective, the Salient, the Advocate and the Lampoon, know that door-to-door delivery is required or there is no point in publishing. Believe me, door-to-door delivery is a substantial amount of dirty, tiresome work, and no one would want to do it if they thought it unnecessary...
Along with three friends, the aspiring young minister spent six weeks conducting a door-to-door survey to find out what people wanted in a church. Those interviewed said churches were "boring" and "predictable." Some complained that church officials "bugged" them for money. Most wanted a church that was "relevant to their lives." Says Hybels, who now drives a Suzuki Sidekick and earns $67,000 a year: "We decided to defer to the customer except where it conflicted with Scripture...