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...First-year law student Anjan Choudhury characterized the meeting as “uneventful...
Meltzer enumerated the Law School’s space needs—which include making room for more faculty to cut the school’s student-faculty ratio and creating space for a more student-friendly “college system” for first-year law students...
...Offering first-year women free admission to a Roman-style wild orgy party and calling them “vestal virgins” perpetuates the notion of the first-year girl as a commodity and novelty. The prevalent conception that first-year women are easy sexual targets for upperclass men is already a problem at Harvard; Decandenza’s advertisement only exacerbates this problem...
Specifically targeting first-year women for free or discounted admission to a social event essentially amounts to invidious and subtle discrimination, and it is unacceptable on the Harvard campus. Singling out first-year women for different treatment from other undergraduates can only lead to negative consequences in the long run. It is particularly troubling that the Mather HoCo, an official University group, was responsible for organizing and hosting this event...
...Decadenza dance is over, but it serves as a reminder of the unfair way first-year women are often treated as sexual objects in the Harvard social scene. Parties—especially those run by University groups—should refrain from using the trite and sleazy marketing scheme of offering discounted admission to first-year women. Of all Harvard’s students, first-year women are already frequent targets of harassment; singling them out and objectifying them at a House dance only reinforces a damaging stereotype...