Word: eta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson photographer will be arraigned in Middlesex County District Court this morning on trespassing charges following his arrest during Saturday night's demonstration at the Pi Eta Speakers Club...
...HARVARD COMMUNITY has acted with justifiable anger and swiftness to the crude sexism exhibited in a newsletter put out to members of the Pi Eta Speakers Club. The letter--which referred to women as "grateful heffers" [sic] and "slobbering bovines," among other degrading terms--aroused a heated protest outside the club Saturday night by nearly 100 men and women students...
Moreover, this threat is by no means limited to the publication of the Pi Eta Club. The sexist views expressed in the newsletter are an extreme representation of attitudes too often tolerated on campus. Such attitudes are not only offensive, but also dangerous because they create a climate that encourages violence toward women. Sexual harassment and rape are the extreme outgrowths of language that presents women as objects, or employs violent imagery...
...Holly Idelson tried to be fair in allowing Timothy Keating to defend the recent Pi Eta newsletter. Mr. Keating's apology of the infamous letter is, however, totally inadequate. First of all, saying that this was a private publication does not excuse the fact that it had plenty of rapist remarks...
...Newsweek article depicted the surprisingly widespread and growing phenomenon of "date tape" in which women are forced to have sexual relations with men they are already acquainted with. This phenomenon reflects the sense of alienation and misunderstanding between men and women that is at the heart of the Pi Eta newsletter. Feminists of both sexes need to work at bringing understanding and respect between men and women, instead of deepening the line between them. Catherine Temma Davidson...