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...disappointing about this discussion is the nature of the anti-club material. At a university which prides itself on academic excellence and thoroughness, the often-unsubstantiated cliches about final clubs are disheartening. The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and Perspective’s recent use of the now-defunct Pi Eta fraternity in their information on final clubs is wholly irresponsible; to hold final clubs in any way responsible for the shortcomings of an organization which was not a final club is absurd. It merely helps to perpetuate an unfair depiction of the existing clubs and to ensure that...
...frosh who were visiting this past weekend found themselves bombarded by “information” about final clubs. Posters put up around Harvard Yard by Perspective, Harvard’s liberal monthly, urged students to boycott them, citing a sexually explicit quotation from the long-defunct Pi Eta fraternity as an example of the predatory mentality at all-male campus organizations that leads to sexual assault...
...posters’ claim that Pi Eta’s problems are directly related to the nature of the final clubs at Harvard today was misleading and irresponsible. The sexual assaults that took place at Pi Eta were repugnant, but they took place over a decade ago—and thankfully, Pi Eta was closed down because of them in 1991. Moreover, Pi Eta was never a final club; it was a fraternity. Pi Eta’s problems, appalling though they were, have no place in discussions of final clubs’ current roles at Harvard. The pre-frosh...
...pamphlet released simultaneously by Perspective and the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) was somewhat more informative and less egregiously inflammatory. Yet it too contained a plethora of misleading “facts,” repeatedly referring to Pi Eta’s litany of offenses in a pamphlet that purported to be about final clubs. The pamphlet contained a number of national statistics about assaults by “male fraternity members” that were never justifiably or directly linked to any events at Harvard’s final clubs. It refused to recognize that final clubs differ...
...pamphlet makes clear that Pi Eta was not a final club, and when it presents national statistics about fraternities in general, it in no way misquotes or masks those statistics. This information is particularly timely, given that some pre-frosh found themselves at final clubs over the weekend, and this publication gave them some information about the choice they are making when they accept a club member’s invitation to party. The Staff calls for some group somewhere to write an impartial account of final clubs for students. Who would this be? The University? The final clubs themselves...