Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...represents those long persecuted by society that its stand is also wrong. It has leaped to the defense of an employee action it should instead disavow. Defeat Homophobia is short-sighted in advocating the suppression of unpopular opinions. The dispute is made even easier by the fact that the poster in question had nothing to do with AALARM's opinions on homosexuality; its opposition to UHS funding for abortion is well within legitimate campus discourse...
Just because the decisions of two Kinko's employees became ad hoc company policy does not make their action worthy of public censure. That the poster was anti-abortion and not anti-gay is irrelevant. One would be hard pressed to convince someone who is Black to print an anti-Catholic poster at the Ku Klux Klan's behest...
...aware that many students, such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice, do not share our views on the immorality of abortion. For the past several weeks this group has been hanging a poster which enumerates the costs of abortion. We find it appalling that they would attempt to place a dollar value on the entire cost of abortion in our modern society. The Students for Choice, shirking off responsibility to any moral code higher than the individual's convenience, choose to show only the financial costs of abortion and then only the costs incurred by the individual...
...costly, the University could consider a policy in effect at several other schools and levy a special annual fee on users of electrical appliances (something like $5 per computer, $15 per stereo or microwave, $25 per television, etc.). Random inspections (the same ones that root out illegal poster-hanging methods) and steep fines for evaders would suffice to enforce payment of the fees...
...next time you see a chartreuse irregular quadrangle, show your support and do nothing. Don't poster, don't chalk up the sidewalk, just drop it. An ENOUGH pin can be purchased for the low price of $10. After all, I never have ENOUGH money. And make the world a more colorful, geometric place. Leslie Hakala...