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...Brown Daily Herald printed David Horowitz's provocative advertisement arguing against reparations for slavery and then stood up against the fools who tried to punish it for doing so. We noted with surprise that you rejected the ad (News, "Ad Kindles Outrage," March 7): surprise because we thought The Crimson stood for freedom of the press and courage in exercising that right...
...missed an opportunity--an easy opportunity--to show what freedom of speech is all about. And Horowitz would not have got off unscathed. We suppose you might have run an editorial explaining why you printed a provocative ad by someone whose intention it was to provoke. As it is, Horowitz is using the rejection of his ad by The Crimson and other college newspapers to argue, as he put it in a letter to The Wall Street Journal, that "moral and physical intimidation" by "the political left that is fully in control of the campus public square is able...
handled the request by David Horowitz to run his reparations advertisement...
Readers will recall that Horowitz submitted the ad; The Crimson turned down the ad but suggested Horowitz re-do the piece as an op-ed and submit it in that form, whereupon The Crimson would consider accepting it under its normal op-ed standards. Horowitz refused, writing that since "your editors have censored my ad, why would I have any reason to believe that they would accept anything I wrote on this subject for publication...
Congratulations for a principled stand, but also for your brilliant strategy in upholding the dignity and professionalism of The Crimson. Horowitz has embarassed a number of campus papers that were afraid to publish his controversial views or that capitulated to mob rule by apologizing for having run the ad. The Crimson should be proud of its decision...