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...frosh who were visiting this past weekend found themselves bombarded by “information” about final clubs. Posters put up around Harvard Yard by Perspective, Harvard’s liberal monthly, urged students to boycott them, citing a sexually explicit quotation from the long-defunct Pi Eta fraternity as an example of the predatory mentality at all-male campus organizations that leads to sexual assault...
...closed down because of them in 1991. Moreover, Pi Eta was never a final club; it was a fraternity. Pi Eta’s problems, appalling though they were, have no place in discussions of final clubs’ current roles at Harvard. The pre-frosh at whom the boycott campaign was aimed had no way to know these details and so could have been manipulated into fearfully—and erroneously—concluding that all of Harvard’s varied final clubs are centers of sexual violence...
Fliers posted in the Yard and throughout campus this weekend were headlined “Boycott Final Clubs!” in all cap letters and featured an excerpt from a 1984 newsletter written to Pi Eta members...
...Boycott us, please do,” he said. “It’s not fun for me when a lot of random people who don’t know anyone in the club show up at my door. It’s not an open party—it’s for the friends of people in the club...
...think our message is closer to the back of the pamphlet, ‘You have options,’ not, ‘Boycott Final Clubs,’” said Rosenberg...