Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!lkk From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.motss Subject: Re: Corrupting youth: Conservative [sic.] Campus Tabloids Message-ID: <2917@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 12:15:53 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2917 Posted: Thu Oct 18 12:15:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:40:38 EDT References: <1039@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 29 "I'm seeking information, anecdotes, relevant law from netters who have a knowledge of: 3) Any campus tabloids; also, student & alumni campaigns against them. Personal experiences?" At MIT we have a paper called ERGO. It is in a some what different class than the papers you mentioned. It calls itself the "Campus Voice of Reason", and claims to be governed by the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. Rather than a tabloid, it is a very ugly (layout wise) paper whose main body consists of long dry articles, with no pictures or features to speak of. Most people on campus consider it something of a joke ("Ego:The campest voice of reason"), but it does have a non-trivial following nevertheless. It is rarely offensive, rather simply stupid. MIT students are generally too caught up in their technical work to publish a real paper (offensive or otherwise), so we end up with pale versions of other campus rags. -- larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) UUCP: ...{ihnp4, decvax!genrad}!mit-eddie!lkk ARPA: lkk@mit-mc