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...most talked-about scientific studies of the times is Alfred Charles Kinsey's report...
...Unfortunate as such censorship always is, in this case it should precipitate little more than irritation with the administration's antiquated sensitivity. The editorial itself, more inanely than shockingly-suggested that some Swarthmore regulations be adjusted in light of certain enlightening facts set forth in that modern classic, the Kinsey Report. The suggestion, as anyone familiar with the Swarthmore campus can testify, was an unneccessary as was the administration's witless reprimand. The Swarthmore incident is hardly an alarming example of censorship, but it has inadvertently uncovered a more important issue, and one more related to local interests...
News of the suspension of Swarthmore's weekly The Phoenix, because it printed an editorial on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" stirred up a whirlpool of protest among former Swarthmore men now in University graduate schools, and Swarthmore President John Nason may soon be bombarded with letters from Cambridge attacking his cease and desist order...
Nason was not available for comment last night, but earlier he had termed the editorial on the Kinsey report the culmination of "several semesters of irresponsibility by the Phoenix staff for the welfare of the entire college...
Significant factor in the situation is the nature of Dr. Kinsey's data, which is drawn in substantial amount from Swarthmore itself. Of the 5000 males whose sex histories comprise the first volume of the Kinsey Report, slightly over 100, or two percent, are Swarthmore...