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To the Editors of the Crimson:
Nothing happens in avoid. Mr. Chan's ad was not just any Playboy ad running in any newspaper. It was to have been an ad soliciting Harvard-Radcliffe women for a pictorial on the Ivy League, running in a Harvard newspaper.
The whole point of Playboy's upcoming article is to titillate men by debasing into objects the very women who strive hardest to escape that role. The message will be that even the brightest, most achievement-oriented women are really nothing but sexual playthings after all--a message insecure, sexist men are eager to receive.
This anti-female-intellectual attitude is an insult to intelligent women everywhere, and to Harvard-Radcliffe women in particular. It makes a mockery of their lives, their work, and the sacrifices--past, present, and future--they make to compete in a man's world.
The first responsibility of a college newspaper must be to the community it represents. I am deeply shocked that any members of the Crimson staff considered involving a Harvard newspaper in such a gross offense to nearly half its readers. I applaud the decision of the majority. Anne Higonnet '80
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