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...Students held a demonstration in response to the incident and a Crimson photographer was arrested for allegedly stepping onto Pi Eta’s property to take a photo of the event. Fox and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III even asked the club to close, but Pi Eta refused...
...Eta’s publication—which then-club President Timothy J. Keating ’85 called a “poor attempt at humor” in a public letter of apology addressed to Fox—though not a product of a final club, was seen as representative of the type of thinking promoted by the final club system in general...
...catalyzing force in the divorce process was Pi Eta, a now defunct speaking club that Fox said often associated itself with final clubs. This “vestige of an early club system” published a newsletter that referred to women invited to a club party as a “bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter.” Though Pi Eta was not itself a final club, the outrage over the publication sparked discussions about whether the final clubs could continue with their ostensibly exclusionary policies...
...club presidents chose to jump ship. But the separation did not occur overnight...
...first the clubs stalled.But on May 9, 1984 the Committee on College Life set an October 1 deadline for the clubs to decide whether they would admit women or separate. After several extensions of the deadline, on December 8, club presidents met with a subcommittee and indicated they were ready to sever ties, according to a Crimson article from that year...