Word: eta
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This editorial was written in April 1984, after the Pi Eta Speakers Club published a newsletter containing derogatory references to women. President Derek C. Bok and other administrators issued statements condemning the letter. Nine months later, the University cut ties with the Pi Eta and the nine all-male final clubs...
Although helpful in alerting students to offensive behavior, the public declarations do not explore why such attitudes exist, and how they might be changed. The University's implicit acceptance and subsidization of all-male clubs--including the Pi Eta as well as nine final clubs--probably has something to do with it. Harvard currently offers the final clubs access to the steam heat system, centrex phones and alumni records. Such involvement with groups that, as a matter of policy, exclude women, can only be seen as an insult to the principle of total equality of women...
...early October, 35 male Harvard students were initiated into Sigma Alpha Mu, a traditionally Jewish fraternity that disbanded at Harvard more than 50 years ago. About two weeks after the re-emergence of "Sammy," 17 more male undergraduates formed a provisional chapter of the Eta Sigma Chi fraternity. And two weeks ago, about 60 female students announced that they wanted to form a non-exclusive women's club...
Weber said the NSF withdrew its support, about $10 million annually, when the parent company of the von Neumann computer manufacturer disbanded the subsidiary. Control Data Corporation decided to "pull the plug" on ETA System, maker of the supercomputer, the NSF director said. He did not elaborate...
...adds, "A lot of the girls here come from small towns, are naive, and think that the guys at Pi Eta will be just like the guys from their hometown. They think that a guy from Harvard has to be a nice guy, but that's not true...