porn protest

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Abrams, G. (1984, December 23). Sex magazine sales spark free-speech debate: Cal State campus focus of women's rights dispute CAMPUS: Free-speech debate. Los Angeles Times, p. oc_d1. Retrieved from ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1987). This Los Angeles Times article recounts a first amendment controversy over the attempt to ban sales of pornographic magazines at the California State University Northridge student store. Jill Schultz and student government president Zeke Zeidler lead the charge to prohibit the sale of pornographic magazines on the charge that these kind of magazines glorified violence against women. The article discusses how this type of controversy seemed to be gaining momentum around the state and country with other acts of protest regarding the sale of pornographic magazines, especially on college campuses or to college students. California State University Long Beach had recently removed the same magazines “without any fuss” as a business decision. Jerilyn Stapleton, a Cal State LA student and LA chapter representative on the California board of NOW, said she would pursue a ban on that campus after the first of the year (Jan, 1985). Christine Littleton (then at UCLA law school) is quoted on the legal aspects of banning pornography that discriminates against women as a strategy to reduce gender-based violence and Burton Joseph (special counsel and attorney for Playboy) argues that the case