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Master Donald Pfister's recent letter to students, the ostensible occasion for the article, was not written to villify our Secret Santa activities or any of our students, but to offer context for a decision regarding the scheduling of our holiday dinner and dance, to clarify concerns about excesses, and to appraise students of past complaints, as the letter states clearly. The letter nowhere calls for new rules for this year's events. No rules or guidelines for these activities have ever been issued by the masters--these guidelines originate in a student/tutor committee, following house discussion, and students, tutors...
Sunder's article, and perhaps some of our students, have chosen to view these discussions among ourselves with a peculiarly conspiratorial twist. By nearly universal consensus here, we have occasionally experienced instances of offensive or violatory behavior in the past. As Master Pfister's letter points out, these may well be isolated incidents, but they also color our perceptions and inform our concerns. Would anyone among us argue that it is reasonable or appropriate, for example, to demand a blow job for a bottle of Freixenet, or to call someone a "faggot" because he or she refuses to have...
Secret Santas may have had merrier holidays at Kirkland House. In a letter written by Kirkland Master Donald H. Pfister this week, the house's gift-giving festivities were characterized as a "mating ritual,... the culmination of a period devoted to titillating sexual activity under the guise of Holiday exchanges...
...student characterized activity surroundingthe dance as "a kind of dehumanized foreplay,enforced by peer pressure and ending with adistasteful and mechanical tribal spectacle,"according to Pfister's letter...
...Pfister, who had purposely set the date for aSaturday, asked students why they would allow thedance to "take place during the week when thereare classes the next...