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Committee members emphasized that the final clubs and the Pi Eta Speakers Club would need to indicate explicitly their willingness to extend membership to women in order to retain College ties...
...resolution, however, does not include the Pi Eta...
...should go beyond their statements of last week. 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...
...CORRECT to look beyond the Pi Eta affair itself to see the kind of lessons it teaches, but the majority opinion goes too far in attacking the final clubs...
University disapproval of the newsletter, with luck, will inspire a strong anti-sexism in the same league as the Pi Eta Speakers Club, the majority makes an unfair and uninformed connection. In so far as the final clubs are sexist by virtue (or lack thereof) of not admitting women, the link is obvious. However, grouping the clubs together assumes that the final clubs house the same dangerous mentality about women as the Pi Eta, and it also lessens the offense itself...