Word: eta
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Student groups expressed impatience with this bureaucracy in at least one meeting this spring when members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and other groups arrived at the council to urge that the council censure the Pi Eta Club, a men's social group, for an allegedly sexist news-letter, RUS members were frustrated at the council's procedures, which made them wait until the end of the meeting to discuss their proposal, failed to make it on the docketed agenda. Despite the criticism, council members say these procedures are a prerequisite for credibility with administrators. "The procedures...
University commitment to the full equality of women within the community was again at issue this spring when a copy of the Pi Eta Club's official newsletter became public. The newsletter used violent and crude imagery to advertise in upcoming "Pigfest," including referring to women as "slobbering bovines fresh for the daughter and "grateful heffers [sic]." Cries of outrage were coupled with calls for the University to issue a prompt condemnation of the document, and this time officials were more prompt in their response. President Bok and Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 issued strongly worded condemnations...
Nonetheless, the statements were not enough to dilute the accumulated cynicism about Harvard's lackadaisacal attention to women's concerns. The high incidence of sexual harassment and the Pi Eta newsletter are symptoms of the same disease--sexism. And it is hard for many women here not to be discouraged by its manifestation this year, especially in light of--despite some progress over the past several years--Harvard's laughable percentage of female professors and administrators...
...failure to act decisively to condemn the law students who refused to allow members of the audience to question a representative of the P.L.O. recently. Bok did not condemn Kenyatta, even though the Law School incident came shortly after he had heaped abuse on the members of the Pi Eta Club for their sexist newsletter. The Pi Eta's actions were no doubt despicable--if not a little foolish--but were Kenyatta's any less...
...annual protests divestiture and "Take Back the Night" marches continue-al-belt with a more less fervor. But not all are so habitual. This year, for example, students took to the street spontaneously to protests the U.S. invasion of Grenada and closer to home: the newsletter of the Pi Eta Speakers Club, which used violent and degrading imagery to describe women...