LETTER: Those ads are porn

Editor,

I can’t believe that you are able to run some of the ads in the paper that you do. I can go to the computer lab and feel safe from viewing such trash, but nearly every time I open The Statesman I see ads with nearly naked women.

Do you feel you can get away with this because you are getting paid to run these ads? Maybe if the university made money off the porn on the Net, they would allow computer users to look at whatever they wanted. I thought this was a university with high standards.

It seems to me that you are willing to expose everyone to this tasteless, often addicting material without regard to the standards of the university or the readers. When I open the paper I have no option or control of what I will see. I would like to be able to read every article that I find interesting.

Don’t try to tell me I don’t have to look at the pornographic ads, because due to the nature of advertisements in general, they are made to pop out at you. If you continue to run ads of this nature, I will start a campaign against the paper. I am sure I am not the only one on campus who has been offended.

Tani Sherwood