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...pre-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...
...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 at whom the boycott campaign was aimed had no way to know these details and so could have been manipulated into fearfully—and erroneously—concluding that all of Harvard’s varied final clubs are centers of sexual violence...
...more extensive information about these clubs in order to demystify them and explain their presence in undergraduate social life. This should prove invaluable to students who deserve a more thorough understanding of the peculiar institutions in their midst. Last weekend’s misleading scare-mongering aimed at visiting pre-frosh is not the way to go about this worthy task...
...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...
...students came up, and they saw what the campus has to offer,” he said. “Hopefully this weekend, pre-frosh saw a group of students who are fighting to hold Harvard accountable for its commitment to diversity, and if anything, it’s going to bring us even closer together...