Word: playboyism
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Those who claim the staff endeavored to "censor" Playboy, or to protect Harvard women from themselves, miss the point of the majority's intentions, just as they did seven years ago when The Crimson rejected the same...
...Playboy editors must not expect us--a group of undergraduates who are ourselves either morally repulsed by the pornography racket or in the very least respectful of such feelings of collective degradation in our peers--to aid and abet their objectionable cause...
THOSE WHO SAY The Crimson singlehandedly stifled Playboy's message have no argument. Playboy could have spent the same amount of money that running an ad in The Crimson would cost to make somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 photocopied posters, which would have effectively reached every undergraduate, professor and administrator on this campus, and then some. It could have run an advertisement on WHRB. It did run one in the Independent and in the Boston Herald...
...Crimson's rejection of the ad clearly did not compromise Playboy's rights to freedom of expression. The newspaper has not as an institution prevented Playboy photographer David Chan from coming to campus...
...Crimson censored Playboy; the newspaper is in fact on record as supporting pornography's First Amendment right to exist...