Word: hagen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PORNOGRAPHY is more than "bad speech," as Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law and Stork's and Hagen's attorney, said Friday. It is a $4 billion industry that causes and perpetuates violence against women, as well as dehumanizing stereotypes of men and women...
Even 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...
...correct in not bowing to a challenge from the state that can only be described as dangerous to First Amendment rights. Friday afternoon, after a judge properly denied a motion to enjoin the showing, officials of the district's attorney's office threatened to arrest Carl Stork and Nathan Hagen anyway if they went ahead and screened the movie. Stork and Hagen were right to decide to go ahead and show the movie. Not to do so would have been to bow to extralegal bullying and set a dangerous precedent. The district attorney's office, if not challenged, would more...
...sponsored the slide program said during the discussion they were not responsible for the legal actions against the Quincy House Film Society. Nancy L. Rose '80 said that feminist students will apeear at the Third District Courthouse in East Cambridge this morning to read a statement in support of Hagen and Stork...