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For decades, showing lascivious films has been a Registration Day tradition at MIT.
But this month the time-honored practice came to a grinding halt, when the Lecture Series Committee (LSC), the campus film society, cancelled the scheduled screening of Deep Throat because of protests from students and faculty.
However, a spokesman insisted that the break represents only a temporary disruption of the tradition.
"We want to emphasize that we don't plan to discontinue having traditional registration day movies," said Leo J. DaCosta '83, chairman of I.S.C. "but today we wanted to avoid a direct confrontation."
DaCosta noted that Deep Throat had been shown at MIT before. "Over 2500 people trudged through three feet of snow during the blizzard of '78 to see the movie," he said
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