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...local example of such communications was the letter sent last year by members of the Harvard Pi Eta Club, which referred to women in terms that can be fairly described as lewd, insulting, and grossly demeaning. The same issue can arise in the case of speeches or communications that are patently anti-Semitic or vulgarly abusive toward people because of their sexual orientation. Although such statements are deplorable, they are presumed to be protected under the Constitution and should be equally so on the campus as well. Why? The critical question is. Whom will we trust to censor communications...
...free speech is so important, why did you and other Harvard officials issue such strong public denunciations of the Pi Eta letter...
...effects on students. Nevertheless, this possibility is not sufficient to outweigh he need for officials to speak out on matters of significance to the community--provided, of course, that they take no action to penalize the speech of others. No such action was taken against members of the Pi Eta Club for having written the letter, and no such action should have been taken...
...this sense the Pi Eta Speakers Club--which is not one of the 10 final clubs--has a lead on its more exclusive brothers, having expressed its sexism in no uncertain terms in a newsletter last year that referred to women as "meaty but grateful heffers" (sic) and "slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter...
...issue, which had largely quieted by spring, flared up again in April when a copy of the Pi Eta Club's official newsletter became public. The newsletter, which employed violent and crude sexual imagery denigrating to women, sparked a rally outside the club and calls for the University to censure the document. Both President Bok and Fox did issue statements condemning the newsletter, but no action was taken against the club or any individual members. Not all felt that the College should penalize the Pi Eta, but the incident served to point out the extent to which the private clubs...