Word: eta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WEDNESDAY APRIL 11, four days after a protest outside the Pi Eta Speakers Club, Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 issued a condemnation of the club's recently publicized newsletter. Fox said the newsletter "articulates a view of women so offensive that it constitutes a repudiation of some of the College's fundamental values...
...Thursday April 12, President Bok joined Fox's condemnation, releasing a statement "deploring the tone and content of the recent Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter." Bok went on to comment that "tasteless and grossly insensitive references to groups of people have no place in this or any other civilized community," adding that the newsletter was "totally inconsistent" with the University's commitment to full respect for men and women...
...Tuesday April 17, Radcliffe President released her statement on the Pi Eta Newsletter, calling is "shocking" and an "affront to the human dignity and sensibility of every thoughtful woman and man who understands the nature of a free and humane society." Horner went on to state that the newsletter "generated a serious erosion of confidence and an overwhelming sense of doubt and disillusion about the quality of life and of education possible for women, and men, here...
Committee members emphasized that the final clubs and the Pi Eta Speakers Club would need to indicate explicitly their willingness to extend membership to women in order to retain College ties...
...resolution, however, does not include the Pi Eta...