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...following is the statement released yesterday by Dtan of the College John B. Fas Jr. '59 on the PI Eta Club...
...Official Pi Eta Speakers Club News letter" has ruised a topic of great concern to many members of the community. The club's officers have argued that the letter does not express views held by any of them, and that, on reflection, they regret the public misperception that they do hold such views. Nevertheless, the letter articulates a view of women so offensive that it constitutes a repudiation of some of the College's fundamental values. In addition, the letter makes a mockery of basic standards of civility, which the College takes seriously...
...Eta Club newsletter is not simply an issue of free speech for Pi Eta members (as has been suggested); it is also an issue of free speech and freedom generally, for women. Women are neither free nor equal in a society which commonly views them as sub-human sexual objects who may freely be subjected to male sexual violence...
...represetnation of women as sub-human "slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," but in its message that women enjoy male sexual violence and aggression; "grateful heffers (sic)" As Chris Hayes pointed out in her insightful letter to The Crimson, the rape mentality created by pornography, and the Pi Eta club, allows men to sexually coerce and rape women with impunity. After all, "she wanted...
...author of the proposed Minneapolis anti-pornography ordinance) put it in a speech at the Law School last week, is "will they do it for women?" MacKinnon and other feminist scholars are presently arguing, and I agree, that we ought to consider pornography (such as the Pi Eta letter) as a question of competing rights to free speech. We must weigh the rights of the pornographers against the rights of women who are silenced by pornography--who must live in fear of the sexual violence which pornographers portray as erotic and enjoyable...