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Defying Pols, Maryland Students to Screen Porno

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 6, 2009 5:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – University of Maryland students plan to take in some porn tonight after a heated battle with school officials and state lawmakers, the Baltimore Sun reports. The school slated a screening of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge—which recently showed at a University of California campus—last week, until legislators threatened to cut school funding. Now students have scheduled their own on-campus showing.

Before the film, students will hold a news conference and a discussion on free speech featuring an ACLU lawyer and several professors. “The legislators' response,” the lawyer said, “poses a huge threat to the integrity and independence” of the school. But state Sen. Andrew Harris still plans to ax funding if the flick shows. "Pornography is not fun; it's poison," he said earlier this week. "They want to get our kids hooked on pornography."

University of Maryland, College Park students.
University of Maryland, College Park students.   (AP Photo)
The poster for Pirates II.
The poster for "Pirates II."   (Digital Playground)
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They need to take control of this situation. If they cannot handle this situation, they cannot handle the type of money that is earmarked for them in the capital budget either. - Maryland State Senator Andrew P. Harris

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passinthru
Sep 1, 2009 10:32 AM CDT
porn addiction is real, but this guy is full of sh*t.
paul123
Apr 7, 2009 4:38 AM CDT
all politics and religion aside, what is the point of showing a porno as part of school curiculae?
professortech
Apr 7, 2009 2:38 AM CDT
Hold on... Is ANY of this ILLEGAL? The film is legal.. the attendees must all be of legal age...Although I don't actually see the educational point (outside of basic film commentary about the lameness of the quality of pornos as cinema Art) I don't see anything illegal as long as all laws about the content and the attendees are within the bounds of the law. Do the legislators of NJ think that intelllectual freedom on a college campus should be constrained to what "they" think is "morally correct" to learn? I don't think the founders of America's most prestigious scholastic institutions would agree with them. Knowledge, and the search, discovery and exploration of it must inherently be free and unfetered so that fact, opinion and prejudice can be discerned from each other.

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