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Jfville, N.S. (CUP) -- Acadia University’s student spaper was denuded of some copy last week by its inter.

Ke Mar. 12 edition of the Athenaeum includeda taphic of an erect penis with a caption that read, ‘Sexism rears its unprotected head. Men; Use Con- s or Beat it. AIDS kills women.’’ The graphic companied an article on safer sex.

/henaeum business manager Dave Matthews saida on tville Publishing employee told him the company moved the graphic because it contradicted their porate standards and ethics.

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latthews said the paper couldn’t use another printer. The option of going to another printer didn’t really

list because it would have meant going to Halifax, nich neither time nor money would have allowed,”’ said.

ie graphic had been widely distributed by the AIDS yalition to Unleash Power, and has been reprinted in ner student newspapers, such as the McGill Daily. Atthews said the paper substituted another graphic, hough he said the decision was unfair and reduced impact of the safer sex message.

adia University sociology professor Gary Kinsman ed.

itis my sense that heterosexual men on campus are lorly educated (about AIDS) and don’tsee that they Id be putting women at risk,’’ he said.

rhe graphic had a clear context, and, by removing Kentville Publishing diluted the message of safer

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nsman said sometimes it is necessary to offend in \ der to communicate a message effectively.

roll Daniels, lawyer for Acadia University, said the blisher was within rights to yank the graphic in erto avoid an obscenity charge by police.

ree speech is notabsolute,’’ she said,

But Brian Iler, an attorney for Canadian University Press, said charges were unlikely because the graphic was not ‘‘an undue exploitation of sex’’ as defines by the Canadian Criminal Code. Controversy swept university campuses last spring after student newspa- pers reprinted a guide for safer sex for gay men, originally run in the paper at Memorial University in Newfoundland. The Muse was threatened with crimi- nal charges, and papers across the country published the article in a show of solidarity.

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