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...HARVARD COMMUNITY has acted with justifiable anger and swiftness to the crude sexism exhibited in a newsletter put out to members of the Pi Eta Speakers Club. The letter--which referred to women as "grateful heffers" [sic] and "slobbering bovines," among other degrading terms--aroused a heated protest outside the club Saturday night by nearly 100 men and women students...
Moreover, this threat is by no means limited to the publication of the Pi Eta Club. The sexist views expressed in the newsletter are an extreme representation of attitudes too often tolerated on campus. Such attitudes are not only offensive, but also dangerous because they create a climate that encourages violence toward women. Sexual harassment and rape are the extreme outgrowths of language that presents women as objects, or employs violent imagery...
...Holly Idelson tried to be fair in allowing Timothy Keating to defend the recent Pi Eta newsletter. Mr. Keating's apology of the infamous letter is, however, totally inadequate. First of all, saying that this was a private publication does not excuse the fact that it had plenty of rapist remarks...
Third, he argues that the newsletter remarks are not representative of the views of his club-mates. I cannot judge them all. But I can assure him that statements like Pi Eta's serve as propaganda which popularizes and legitimizes sexism and violence. After all rapists are not born, they are created by our culture...
...Eta members said they thought the protest was an overreaction. "This is an enormous fuss for a parody," said one member who refused to be identified. "We're just a bunch of guys who go in for a couple of beers...