Word: eta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before we get in any discussion about the amazing pounding of private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday night by your huge and erect penis, the officers would like to make some pertinent rules clears. After reminding Pi Eta members to get in those dues, the newsletter returns to a more detailed description of the upcoming "pigfest...
...Eta President Timothy Keating explains that the newsletter is meant to be a private bulletin for club members, adding "I'm sorry it ended up in someone's mailbox." On the subject of the letter itself. Keating explains that it was intended as a parody of what are presumed to be Pi Eta attitudes. "It in no way reflects the attitude of the members of the club," he notes...
According to Keating, it is also unusual for the Pi Eta newsletter to contain any thing more than a straightforward listing of club news. The issue in question was a special edition, the first put out by the incoming officers. As tradition dictates, the issue typically contains a certain amount of "sexual innuendo." (Keating uses the term somewhat loosely, since the playful suggestion that one of the officers "bring a date that will have sex with all of us!" is hardly innuendo...
...mean to imply that the Pi Eta Club is a hotbed of unreconstructed male chauvinists. I doubt all the club's members were amused by the newsletter, just as I doubt all those who would be do belong to the Pi Eta. But while it is disturbing enough to know that a Harvard undergraduate authored the letter, having it appear as the official publication of an established club is still more threatening since it implies an endorsement--indeed, an encouragement--of like minded thinking...
MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, the newsletter confirms a persistent fear on the part of many women that their acceptance as equals is only superficial. That when the doors close at the Pi Eta Club, in the locker room; or at any other all-male sanctuary, men stop talking equality, and start talking bra size...