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...CRIMSON rejected the ad because the paper through the ad would have been aiding Playboy in its search for a pictorial that will degrade Radcliffe women and women in general, further enforcing sexist attitudes. Some people will, no doubt, object that The Crimson is being paternalistic. If the ad were to run, they will argue, Radcliffe women surely would have the ability to make an intelligent choice on whether or not to pose for a few hundred dollars. We quite agree. Our point is simply that The Crimson does not want to be party in any way to Playboy...
...accept regular advertising from Playboy and other such publications. Some people will undoubtedly protest that our decision is inconsistent because regular subscription ads contribute to sexism as much as ads soliciting models. Yet, it is not simply the degree of sexism in Mr. Chan's advertisement to which we object; rather, it is that the ad would involve The Crimson in soliciting women for a magazine that has played a major role in America's degradation of women. The argument that subscription ads solicit readers and should therefore be treated the same as Chan's ignores the distinction between...
...waiting until last month to present detailed proposals, management angered the chapels and reduced chances for a settlement by the deadline. "We object to negotiating with a gun to our heads," says one union leader. The National Graphical Association, which represents 600 Times arid Sunday Times compositors, machine managers and stereotypers, is refusing to come to the bargaining table at all. "Only a fool conspires at the destruction of his members' jobs," says Joe Wade, union general secretary. "No trade union leader in any industry can give an ironclad guarantee of continuous production...
Parents of some 1,200 children in California's San Fernando Valley have set up small home classes in protest against a local busing order; most say they object not to integration but to their kids' spending one to three hours a day on school buses. Then too there are parents who teach their own youngsters because they have decided to pull up stakes and spend a few months or even years touring the U.S. in mobile homes...
City officials also object to another part of the plan which gives Harvard a one-month option of purchasing property owned by any Faculty member covered by the plan--raising the old specter of University expansion...