Anscombe Society President Shivani Radhakrishnan '11 began an online petition this Wednesday and posters advertising the petition have cropped up around campus this weekend. Radhakrishnan is also a member of The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board.In late February, the USG voted to grant $1,500 to the student group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS) to fund the event. The petition is aimed at four administrators at the University including President Shirley Tilghman and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne.
In a Daily Princetonian article, Radhakrishnan said that while the Anscombe Society does not object to discussion about pornography, “screening pornography ... is a relevantly different situation.”
The online petition, which is seeking 500 signatures, had 223 as of Saturday evening. The text of the petition reads, "We, as students of Princeton, oppose the public screening of pornography on campus." A sizable number of the signatories, however, are Princeton alumni or individuals not affiliated with the University.
*Update (3/7): The text of the petition now reads: "students, alumni, and community members of the Princeton community".
— Tasnim Shamma '11
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The posters don't mention that the screening will be followed by a discussion because the petition and posters don't object to the discussion itself, as Radhakrishnan herself has explained. And would you like to be more precise as to exact percentage or number which constitute the "sizable number of the signatories" which are not individuals affiliated with the University? This is a poorly-written post that clearly contains censure against a legitimate form of protest and an important component of an on-going discussion about sexuality and the role/impact of pornography.
get over it.
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I laugh at the fact that they haven't made it to 500, and just might fail to reach their ridiculously low goal.
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