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More Discretion Please

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May
Year
1990
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More Discretion Please

I applaud the suggestion, implicit in the Danto and Baker letters printed in your March issue, that AGENDA exercise editorial discretion over the content of the Calendar section of the paper. The purpose of the Calendar should be to inform the community of progressive events. Therefore, uncritical inclusion of all Hillel activities is simply not appropriate.
Hillel, as an umbrella organization, presents occasional progressive programs of interest to AGENDA's target audience. Certainly these items merit inclusion in the Calendar. However, Hillel should definitely not be accorded blanket coverage for its entire miscellany of events. The same criterion should be applied to activities sponsored by other organizations. In particular, I think you presently advertise too many films with no apparent progressive connection.
I am pleased that this issue has been raised, since I have for some time been disturbed by the lack of screening of material submitted to the Calendar. I look forward to a more focused and more useful Calendar in the future.

Steve Hayworth
YPSILANTI, MI

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