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Estimating that he interviewed about 60 Harvard students this week who say they want to pose in Playboy's upcoming "Women of the Ivy league" pictorial, magazine photographer David Chan said he will likely move on to Brown next week...
This truism is not relevant to Playboy, for the magazine, thanks in part to news coverage generated by The Crimson's dispute and by prominent coverage on page one of this newspaper, is having "free speech" a-plenty. The argument is relevant to those who voted not to publish the advertisement, because they failed to see their own self-interest. Put simply, they did not have enough faith in our community to believe that female students would be as repulsed by the concept of posing nude for Playboy (and by the magazine itself) as women at The Crimson were...
...FACT, more than a handful of women do decide to pose for Playboy, then there are some problems in this society whose roots lie far deeper than The Crimson or Playboy and which would make The Crimson's little gesture seem trivial indeed. Does The Crimson really believe it can or should protect society from itself...
...majority at The Crimson believed they were furthering a noble cause by quashing the Playboy ad. People who read about The Crimson's decision around the country--everything that happens at Harvard goes national--will get a good chuckle, as will the editors of Playboy, who will once again be able to make the fallacious argument that they are persisting despite the oppression of a bunch of Harvard prudes...
That cause was not furthered by the actions of the majority, for they took the spotlight off Playboy and the women of Harvard and turned it on The Crimson. The editors are to be congratulated on their victory, but they must realize it was only a Pyrrhic one. Endorsed by David S. Hilzenrath