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When housemaster Charles Dunn cancelled the first showing of the porn flick, most assumed the fight was over. But the film society, still hoping recoup earlier financial losses, decided to screen the movie the next weekend...
...picketeer began, trembling as she constructed her question, "How can someone who has been raped, victimized because of porn, what can they...
...after the district attorney advised Stork and Hagen that they would be arrested, the students still had no justification for showing the film. By courting a First Amendment confrontation, Stork and Hagen chose the easy way out. Rather than face the important issue--should the film society support the porn industry--they ducked into the constitutional shelter. A student organization is not simply a business it has obligations to the community it serves. In refusing to take seriously the decision to show pornography, film society officers relinquish their claims to our sympathy on grounds of unfair censorship...
Protesters rightly took the opportunity to educate the all-too-insensitive student body to the dangers of porn. Slide shows presented the link between sexism and violence; handouts traced the story of Linda Boreman Marciano's treatment during the filming of the movie that made her a "star"--treatment that can only be described as criminal and obscene. The demonstration the night of the screening was inspiring: as many people watched the slide show as the movie. We support that protest for its condemnation of an insensitive and wrong decision to support pornography, and we urge House film societies...
...Because porn, finally, is a political issue. It hits at the heart of power and abuse of power. In our society, men have power in may forms over women--economic, social, and sexual. Pornography, soft-core as well as hard core, creates a climate in which the use of sex as a tool for power and domination of women by men is acceptable...