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That group admission of guilt was inspired by a 48 -page pamphlet rather innocuously entitled Birth Control Handbook. Princeton's Sex Education Counseling and Health Program (its barbaric acronym: SECH) had distributed some 6,000 copies in dormitories. What outraged conservative students and alumni was not the pamphlet's routine discussion of anatomy, conception, contraceptives and abortion but its fiery introduction. The opening pages denounced the population-control movement as an instrument of U.S. imperialism in the Third World. The introduction also blamed urban ills on "America's white ruling class" and pollution on consumers...
...primary source book for University rules relating to film societies is a small green pamphlet entitled "Regulations for Undergraduate Organizations in Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges." In a community where regulations proliferate, violations of the little green pamphlet seem to cause little anxiety to the older hands, except where it cites city ordinances such as those requiring the presence of a policeman. More vunerable, however, is the nearly universal practice of renting a film for a single showing and using it throughout the weekend...
...part of the administrative changes, Slingerland said that all high school seniors accepted to the Class of '77 will receive a pamphlet describing Expository Writing...
...Harvard's existing libraries were becoming inadequate again. Officials of the University Library--a catch-all phrase for all of Harvard's libraries--initiated a ten-year planning study on projected growth and book space. They published a thick pamphlet, full of zooming prediction curves for how many books the library was going to add and how much money it needed. The pamphlet's major recommendation was that a two-million volume addition be built to house parts of the Central Collections--that is, the books in Widener, Houghton, and Lamont Libraries...
...serious core to White's argument. Certainly, a distinction between 'legitimate' and 'illegitimate' newspapers is one to be avoided at all costs. But without such a distinction, there seems to be no way of preventing the unlimited extension of the journalist's privilege. If everyone who occasionally writes a pamphlet qualifies as a journalist, the day might come when it would be nearly impossible to get anyone with important private information to testify against his will. Our current system of criminal justice would be radically reduced in efficiency, possibly to the point of breakdown...