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Porn Film Screening Causes Stir at CMU

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Post Gazette: Don't expect heavy breathing or shady-looking patrons slumped furtively in their theater seats.

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It's true, "The New Devil in Miss Jones" is hard-core pornography. But several hundred students expected to settle into soft green seats in a Carnegie Mellon University auditorium April 26 are a different kind of audience, likely to snack on popcorn, laugh and applaud as they witness a controversial expression of modern culture.

That, at least, is what the head of the student-run activities board remembers from previous times his group sponsored a once-a-semester pornographic movie as part of a wide-ranging film series.

"It's kind of an absurd environment. Some people dress up in costume," said Tomasz Skowronski, a Carnegie Mellon senior and acting president of the activities board. "It's not serious. People are very lighthearted about this."

On other campuses, though, plans for similar screenings this spring have sparked debate between those who say the movies are unfit for a college audience and others who say campus beliefs about free speech require that even something like porn be allowed to be shown.

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4 comments so far | Post a comment now
AM  April 23, 2009, 5:03 PM

If you don’t like don’t go to watch it. But really watching porn doesn’t seem like something one should do in a crowd.

Meghan April 23, 2009, 6:24 PM

I don’t think that this is that big of deal. These are college kids who can decide for themselves if they want to watch or not. And I can’t imagine that the people who do go will take it any more seriously than those who attend the midnight screenings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show…LOL I say Free speech wins the day on this one.

The Mother April 23, 2009, 6:32 PM

For gods’ sakes. University students are ADULTS. Let’s treat them that way. They have just as much right to watch porn as anybody else.

It’s bad enough that they aren’t allowed to DRINK.

Melissa April 23, 2009, 8:35 PM

Really a little disturbing. I’m not sure what kind of career they may be preparing themselves for. If they want to pay money to sit in a classroom and watch porn I think thats pretty pathetic. Oh well, hopefully its their money and not their parents.


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