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...universities claim the right to pressure others to do what they believe is morally right, we must acknowledge that all sorts of organizations and groups may likewise feel impelled to turn the screw in behalf of standards that they consider to be important and just... The risk of abuse is so great that it seems wiser for private organizations to leave to public agencies the task of imposing standards of corporate behavior. For all its impertections,' the government is at least responsible to the voters and subject to the procedural requirements and all the other safeguards that our constitutional system...
...decision to reject the Screw ad, like similar decisions in the past, was reached at a staff meeting where all staff members--news, editorial, photo and business--could participate. The Crimson has no set, rigid, policy for deciding which ads should be rejected--it has made all such decisions ad hoc at these meetings. They have served over the years to clarify just why the Crimson occasionally refuses to print an ad and to test the decisions against several objections. The objections have fallen into a few categories, which include...
...Crimson is restricting his freedom of speech. "Freedom of speech" as a legal principle enshrined in the First Amendment exists to protect the statements of individuals from government prosecution. As a moral principle, it exists to insure that every viewpoint has its chance for public airing. Screw's right to publish is not endangered by The Crimson's refusal to print its subscription ad. Many of us, in fact, might argue just as forcefully in the magazine's defense if any arm of the government moved to shut it down because of its contents. And Screw's right to express...
...refusing an ad, The Crimson is restricting the freedom of choice of its readers. This argument ludicrously--and condescendingly--assumes that the readers of a newspaper receive all their information from it and are helpless without its guidance. Any reader of The Crimson with a desire to subscribe to Screw can do so simply by looking up the magazine's address or phone number and sending it a check. The "freedom of choice" truly endangered in this controversy is that of the thousands of women raped every year, in a society where magazines like Screw have portrayed rape...
...refusing ads for porno magazines, The Crimson is setting itself up as a prudish censor. Screw offends not for its depiction of sexually explicit subjects--which have, on occasion, appeared in The Crimson and do not in themselves offend us--but for its promotion of sexual exploitation. There is a critical and easily discernible distinction between the two; and until society and its institutions, like The Crimson, learn to draw it better, both equality between the sexes and a healthy attitude towards sexuality will remain unattainable...