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...letter authored by Asian Media Watchdog and signed by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered student groups on several college campuses said the column “suggested Asian men cannot be both gay and Asian. Or that we are both and therefore should be mocked...
...protest, Daniel Peres, editor-in-chief of Details, issued another statement on the controversial column...
Thank you for publishing the excellent column “Girl Talk” by Phoebe Kosman ’05 on April 12. It directly addressed many of the word-choice issues that bug me when referring to a woman in daily conversation. One suggestion, that was not mentioned in the article, is to use “gal” to refer to females who are “not a girl, and not yet a woman”. It seems to be the appropriate analogue...
...want to start this column by fulfilling a promise I made last week to Jack Valenti, the outgoing president of the Motion Picture Association of America, when he came to speak to Crimson editors about copyright law and the internet. Here it goes: Downloading or copying music or movies to which you have no “fair use” claim (this is probably true of most of the music you download) is illegal. Any given offense infringes upon an exclusive right to a monopoly bestowed upon the copyright holder by Congress, and they...
Then, along came computers. For the first time ever, to make a “private performance” of a work requires making a copy in some meaningful sense. Some of you (who are reading this column on your own glorified copy machine) can see right now how important and easy copying things is by hitting the refresh button on this page a few times, and for those of you following along on paper, I encourage you to try this at home later tonight (or you can just take my word for it). Every time you play...