Show Why Not A ruling of the Board of Regents that is as useless as the principles it tries to uphold is the rule that prohibits publication of bacco advertisements in university 1 It is obvious that a person is not going to i start using tobacco merely because lie happens notice a ad in his college Yet it is this idea or the sense of moral obliga- tion the Board of Regents must have that keeps this rule in The Chronicle is not advocating that collegians start But the principle is that with the revenue that ads would bring university their financial problems would be J Forbidding ads in college for the reason that the publication of these ads has a upon students cannot be seriously Com- mercial publications are full of this type of J Every time a student steps into a drug cafe or practically any other place of public he is faced with if a student is faced constantly with tobacco he will not start smoking merely because his student pub- publishes the claims of a tobacco A reason lying behind this ruling of the Board of Regents is that population is overwhelmingly against publication of this type of advertisement in a collegiate It is strange that a state which voted for the repeal of the eighteenth should feel this Or perhaps it is merely a r strong minority in opposition with the many who would undoubtedly support such a The easiest solution to the ever-present financial problem that faces the university's publications would be the revoking of the rule that prohibits the publishing of f BRYCE |