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Brown Satire Provokes Ban

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A staff member of the Brown Daily Herald this week was placed on probation and forbidden to do further work for the paper for writing a satirical column on the University's rule forbidding undergraduates to marry without Dean's Office permission.

The writer, features editor Alan Levy, was charged with lacking "fundamental intellectual honesty" by Brown officials. His column appeared shortly after the University announced the ban on student marriages without permission would be re-instituted this semester after a lapse of several years.

In a front page editorial reply, the Daily Herald raised the question of censorship and stated that unless the decision were reversed "we can never criticize, nor can we discuss any controversial question without fear, real or imaginary, that the next day will bring harsh retaliation from the Dean's Office."

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