Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other raffle, of entire girls, "was not organized to titillate," Diorita C. Fletcher '71, president of East House, said. The seven winners of the raffle, who paid 25 cents per ticket, were greeted with a smile and a cup cake. "It's fraud!" cried one dejected winner. "I didn't even get a kiss," he said. The cupcakes were selling earlier for ten cents...
Harvard's goalie and center--Bruce Durno and Joe Cavanagh, respectively--have also proved to be its greatest strengths. Although Durno's 3.5 goals-allowed average does not rank him among the top five goalies in the East, his solid, often outstanding, goal tending his offset the Crimson's sometime uncertain defensive work...
...which tends to take itself all too seriously and which seems to have nothing better to do with its time and energies than to try to turn a harmless social event into a harrowing social issue. The Committee of Women, through its overreaction to the radical idea of an East House raffle, is perpetuating an image of Radcliffe women which has worked even more against good male-female relations within the University than the raffle ever could. It is my personal hope that the East House Bake Sale and Party helped break down the widespread stereotype of Cliffies as academic...
This Friday East House will raffle off seven of its finest as "Valentine treats" to seven lucky men. While this raffle is meant as a cute gimmick to raise money for East House it reflects the reality of male-female relations in the Harvard "community" and in society at large. Is this our functional value--to be merely another raffle item--like a puppy dog or a television set? Or, for that matter, is it the role of men to purchase women as they would any other commodity...
...reply from East House's president will appear in tomorrow's 'Crimson...