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...sooner was that federal action filed than the district attorney asked a grand jury for an indictment against Stork and Hagen--a procedure reserved only for the most serious of crimes...
...civil court judge ruled the showing was not obscene, and Carl Stork '81 and Nathan Hagen '81 made the final decision to go ahead. While nearly 200 feminists marched outside protesting the "degrading" movie, about 100 packed the dining hall to view the X-rated classic...
However, the other struggle in question--that to end exploitative representations of women--has hardly begun. That struggle, which Stork and Hagen consciously decided to obstruct, deserves greater support than the mere lip service paid it in the second editorial. All people concerned with human liberty, as the eight signators of the second editorial surely consider themselves, have an obligation to speak out vigorously on this issue. To speak instead of a freedom which our society has already granted is not wrong, it is just too easy...
...point then is not: Did Stork and Hagen have the right to show the film? Of course they did. But shouldn't their cause--the cause of exploiting women to make money--be a difficult one to get excited about defending? That the editors who did get excited about it were all men must reinforce skepticism about the integrity of those who have jumped on the "protect the First Amendment" bandwagon. Those who use "freedom of speech" as a means of avoiding tougher questions are only strengthening the hand of cynics who view that important freedom as a fraud...
...should add that the authors of the last editorial are also doing a disservice to their cause by implying a lack of concern for First Amendment Freedoms. Stork and Hagen may have abandoned any claims to our respect, but they have not "relinquished their claims to our sympathy on grounds of unfair censorship." It is important to realize that a conviction of Stork and Hagen would be a triumph of puritanism, not radical feminism. And those of us on the left must always remember that any attempts to undermine free speech must ultimately hurt us far more than those...