Word: pi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 19th century, final clubs at Harvard were the all-male preserves of seniors only. Students would embark on their social careers in sophomore clubs like the Hasty Pudding, Pi ETA, or Institute of 1770, and then join waiting clubs as juniors. Only a few select seniors would eventually join final clubs...
...Shugar, vice president of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering society, said the contest was a way to "ease the pressure, to let off steam" before final examinations...
...years ago the Pi Eta Club was severely chastened by the university and its own Board of Trustees for a club communication that "accidentally" was placed in a non-member's mail box. Its language was extremely degrading to women. The newsletter was offensive to everyone in the Harvard-Radcliffe community but in particular to women...
...read the Lampoon's new issue. I will admit that I have never been a fan of Lampoon "humor," but I find their new issue to be more than I can stomach. I find it as offensive as the Pi Eta newsletter, if not more...
...Then, to join a fraternity or sorority--with its typically upper- middle-class stigma and perhaps a bigotry clause or two in the charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were thought of just as clones of each other." Says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston: "It was an embarrassment to be a member...