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Student groups expressed impatience with this bureaucracy in at least one meeting this spring when members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and other groups arrived at the council to urge that the council censure the Pi Eta Club, a men's social group, for an allegedly sexist news-letter, RUS members were frustrated at the council's procedures, which made them wait until the end of the meeting to discuss their proposal, failed to make it on the docketed agenda. Despite the criticism, council members say these procedures are a prerequisite for credibility with administrators. "The procedures...
University commitment to the full equality of women within the community was again at issue this spring when a copy of the Pi Eta Club's official newsletter became public. The newsletter used violent and crude imagery to advertise in upcoming "Pigfest," including referring to women as "slobbering bovines fresh for the daughter and "grateful heffers [sic]." Cries of outrage were coupled with calls for the University to issue a prompt condemnation of the document, and this time officials were more prompt in their response. President Bok and Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 issued strongly worded condemnations...
Similarly, Peer Contraceptive Counseling this year began its freshman outreach program, discussing birth control with freshman proctoral units. Stephanie R. Dickerson '86, student coordinator of the group, adds that issues such as the recent Pi Eta newsletter help spark more general discussion as well...
...imply an endorsement of such a perception. Also included in support of the assertion that "observers" feel a certain way about procedures is a quoteless paragraph describing alleged "objections on the part of community members" that a Council committee was "too tied up in procedures" when discussing the Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter. The reporter fails to point out that at a Council meeting the night before that committee meeting those same procedures, which tend to safeguard the rights of the minority, and the decorum observed in Council meetings, had permitted many of those "community members" to question in public...
...council's Student Services Committee also came under attack from community members for being too tied up in procedures at a meeting last month to discuss the recent Pi Eta Speaker's Club newsletter...