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This is the perfect time for the Undergraduate Council to send a message to the Ad Board. An official council reprimand of the Ad Board's action vis-a-vis Kirtley should wake the Ad Board. If the council is worth the $80 I have donated to it in the last four years, it will do what it has not done in my time here at Harvard--pass a resolution criticizing an unfair Ad Board. Anyone who considers my proposal ill-advised, unnecessary and hasty does not understand this dangerous precedent about suppression of the press...
Spurring this statement is the recent Supreme Court rejection of a challenge brought by former Navy pilot Lt. Paul G. Thomasson against the military's policy vis-a-vis gays, commonly dubbed "don't ask, don't tell." True to its name, the "don't ask, don't tell" policy takes a relatively laissez-faire attitude towards homosexuals in the American military: Those in power won't ask as long as you don't tell, so stay quiet about your sexual orientation, and everything will be all right; however, should you choose to be public about your sexual preferences...
...political necessity following decades of U.S.-Japanese trade clashes and a yin-yanging yen. Going to America not only defeats barriers like the current 25% duty on imported pickup trucks but also lowers manufacturing and distribution costs. Toyota's nonunion U.S. workers shave some 10% from its wage bill vis-a-vis Japan, and a like amount from shipping costs. The savings can knock about $2,000 off the sticker price of a Camry that would cost $20,000 if imported from Japan...
...Francisco Giants baseball team is already using L-VIS (Live Video Insertion System, pronounced Elvis) on this season's home-game broadcasts, placing logos and ads behind home plate. ESPN is also hoping to use the system for this fall's college football games. Stations in Spain and Mexico are experimenting with even more dramatic effects, such as showcasing sponsors smack in the middle of a soccer field...
Professor Kilson's temporal estimation is perhaps the most confusing part of his letter. "Precisely when that mature stage of a redeeming process vis-a-vis whites' maiming of black souls through American slavocracy will be fulfilled is anyone's guess." It is "perhaps another century away...The time required for the violators of Jewish and black souls to fulfill a viable redeeming process has not yet transpired...