"The final measure of intellectual achievement is in terms of its contribution to the conversation in which all universes of discourse meet."
—Michael Oakeshott (The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind)
The Associated Press
Friday, May 27, 2005; 8:03 AM
LOS ANGELES -- Posters that depicted President Bush with a Groucho Marx-style mustache and cigar were ordered torn down at a high school after a student complained.
Theater students, who had created the posters to advertise a satirical play, countered with new posters with a First Amendment message.
Principal Kenny Lee ordered 100 posters removed from the campus of El Camino Real High School in the Woodland Hills area last week on grounds that they promoted smoking and "endorsing one ideology over another."
"That's our take on the student speech and conduct," Lee said.
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