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...nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking out the male genitals in copies of Playgirl. Explains Proprietor Yehezkel Steimatzky, 75: "Everybody is used to nude women, but nude men are new on the Israeli market, and I am afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky's emasculation of the magazine. Since Israel has no pornography law, the courts may well agree. Until the courts act, male employees at Steimatzky's Agency will dutifully wield their black-magic markers. Says he: "We wouldn...
...unpopularity of the Quad Houses, and the large numbers of sophomores living outside the House system--about 360 this year-- have left the administration with little choice but to change the system, or leave a status quo that is unsatisfactory to almost all concerned...
Each option has its pros and cons. The status quo has in its favor no additional costs. But it fails to deal with the problem of assigning rising freshmen to the Quad against their wishes and does nothing for sophomores remaining outside the House system. Improving the Quad and instituting a system of no choice could preserve the mixture of four classes of the Quad Houses...
Most Jews at Harvard are very loyal to the university and they find it difficult to admit that fair Harvard, which gives them so much, is not willing to accept them as Jews. Instead, many argue for the preservation of the status quo. But this constitutes a sanctification of Harvard's history including its errors. It would seem to me that loyalty to Harvard, an institution dedicated to "Veritas," should lead us rather to an impartial, critical attitude so that we may make it a better institution for all people...
Since the 1968 strike, Shanker has been accused of retreating from his earlier liberalism. Says a city labor leader: "My disappointment in him is that as the new face in the American labor movement, he adheres to the status quo. He is not innovative in terms of reform." Shanker is not enthusiastic about busing, and he has opposed affirmative-action programs that impose racial or ethnic quotas. "Quotas are authoritarian and essentially discriminatory," he says. "Why not just confer an M.A. at birth on blacks and minorities?" On the other hand, he takes pride in the some 10,000 blacks...