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...past year Harvard College has witnessed new pressures to restrict freedom of speech. Some elements among Jews here seem bent upon keeping Christian militants like the Moonies from distributing their wares; and certain sections of black militants would apply full censorship to the Lampoon's right to decide the form and substance of its humor. Both of these groups have also sought to maneuver the office of Harvard's undergraduate deans behind their anti-freedom pressures--a distressing development indeed...
...Moonies aren't quite my cup of tea--in fact, I dislike Rev. Moon, their leader--but they have a right to recruit and propagate. And the Lampoon is surely not high on my reading list but they should be free to shape their own humor without apology to anybody. And anyway the militants among black students ought to take the massive problems of blacks more seriously than to waste sweat and energy over a silly cartoon of black boy shining John Harvard's shoes. I am surprised that their leader, Tony Chase, has lost perspective in these matters...
...behalf of the Lampoon, we have issued the following statement to the HRBSA in response to its charges of "racial offensiveness" in selected pieces which have appeared in the magazine during the past two years...
...members of the Lampoon are quite concerned about the issues raised in recent weeks by the HRBSA. We regret that students have found some material in the magazine to be "racially offensive." We wish to express our concern that specific articles were received in this fashion. The Lampoon is a humor magazine; we attempt to amuse our readers by ridiculing stereotypes rather than merely by repeating or perpetuating them...
...unrelated nondevelopment, Epps is still looking into the Harvard Radcliffe Black Student Association's charges that the Lampoon's sense of humor tends to be racially insensitive...