Word: eta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking for business in a bar frequented by Americans, but the women is mistaken for a prostitute. Unable to explain what he really wants and afraid of Yankee cuckoldry, the hapless Italian runs out and gets every hooker in town to distract the soldiers. The result is party Pi Eta style...
...admit women. It was under the shadow of this concern that College officials began investigating the specific links to the clubs, and whether such ties did in fact constitute a violation of Title IX. The issue was further spotlighted in the spring when an edition of the Pi Eta Speakers' Club newsletter containing highly sexist language and imagery became public. Although the Pi Eta is not technically a "final club," the incident fueled arguments that all-male clubs are almost by definition sexist. The CCL passed a resolution condemning the clubs for excluding women and weighed recommending that the College...
Sound familiar? No, it's not the Pi Eta Newsletter Incident of last spring. It's the Johns Hopkins Tau Epsilon Phi Newsletter Incident of last week, and it's the big news in Baltimore...
...open letter, Bok tries to paint himself as a "good gay" by denouncing the sexism of Pi Eta while saying not a word about the deeds of Weinberger and Botha and claiming that Harvard University stands above politics. What a sick joke! This in the home of the Kennedy School, where they draw up plans for a nuclear first strike and for the starvation of Central American peasants. This is the place where Vietnam war criminal Henry Kissinger received his training. This is the campus, where napalm was invented...
...most revealing aspect of Bok's latest epistle may well have nothing to do with its substance, but rather with what it shows about the character of leadership in this University. Bok writes a good letter. His denunciation of the Pi Eta Club was proper. But is he willing to do more than come crashing down on the easiest target of them...