From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!cornell!vax135!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbesvax!turner
Newsgroups: net.college
Title: Mosher @ Stanford - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ucbcad.756
Posted: Thu Mar  3 23:12:57 1983
Received: Sun Mar 13 14:11:29 1983

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ucbesvax!turner    Mar  3 20:21:00 1983

	While we're all waiting for the next round of flame on the
    Kirkpatrick issue, how about....
			    A NEW TOPIC
	....no less controversial than the previous.  It has to do with
    an anthropology professor (Mosher) at Stanford.  This issue has the
    advantage of being more restricted to the general subject area of
    "college".  It has several disadvantages:

	- it has to do with abortion, and hence will invite pro/con
	  arguments ad infinitum (see net.women -- or better yet, don't!
	  They deserve a break); net.flame is always open to these;

	- it has elements of "freedom of speech" controversy in it, and
	  that one has almost been done to death here;

	- it has to do with human rights in a Communist country, thus
	  inviting flame without inviting more balanced kinds of
	  comparison of the human rights situation of in non-Communist
	  countries (e.g., "Only in a Collectivist nightmare-regime
	  could atrocities of such barbarity even happen...").

	It may not be the BEST topic, but it IS a new one.  So let's not
    incinerate each other, please?  [Even] I will try to hold mine down to
    a page or two, assuming others can manage to keep the accusations/
    insults/lies down to one such solecism per paragraph in their
    (hopefully shorter) diatribes.   The key here is: keep to the subject.

	Feistily Yours,
	    Michael Turner
    
    P.S.  Note that I don't fill in any details on this case.  I assume
    you have read about it, or will if it sounds sufficiently interesting.
    This has one advantage: ignoramuses (ignorami?) will get a late start,
    or will even be too confused to contribute.  (Yay!)  I also don't inform
    you of MY stand on the issue.  This has the advantage of leaving room
    for others to suffer some public vilification.  My opinions will soon
    become clear (or maybe muddy?  I sometimes change my mind.)