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...group of Brandeis alumni have nominated by petition black militant Angela Davis to oppose the two candidates chosen by the BUAA Committee on Nominations, conservative incumbent president Morton Ginsberg and liberal contender Judith Aranson...
...letter appeals to "those who don't regard the university as a pawn in the political struggles of the American Left" to vote for incumbent President Ginsberg, and states that the Davis petition is to some "a joke," and to others "a cheap way of being, or playing being, radical," and to others "an effort to use the University for their own political purposes...
BUAA Nominating Committee Chairman Sanford Freedman argued Wednesday that the petitioners' statement seeking Davis's election as a symbol "bore no relevance to the election proceedings." Out of fairness, he said, the Committee had decided not to submit Ginsberg's statement with the ballots...
...added that Aronson did not decide to leave the race under pressure. "She asked my opinion if it would help or hurt Ginsberg, and I said I don't know. It was completely her own decision Aronson could not be reached for comment...
However, at the same time, a few cases snapped that umbrella shut again-under specific circumstances. One involved sales to minors. In Ginsberg v. New York, the court held that states may make it a crime to sell "to minors under 17 years of age material defined to be obscene to them whether or not it would be obscene to adults." The court's reasoning was that "the well-being of its children is a subject within the state's constitutional power to regulate." And Ginzburg v. United States makes it possible to prosecute publishers for "pandering...