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California on June 5. He also thinks he can bounce back in the Midwest (Ohio, May 8) and East (New Jersey, June 5). For now, he says, "the voters are buying time. They're not going to let anyone have this nomination early and easy." Democratic officials regard Hart's position as more precarious, noting that, after Pennsylvania, Hart must win roughly two out of every three delegates. "Gary can suffer a loss in Pennsylvania and still be a viable candidate, but he has to win everything after that," says a top party strategist...
About having wiretapped reporters: "I was paranoiac, or almost a basket case, with regard to secrecy . . . If you think I was tough on these leaks, [Henry Kissinger] was even tougher at times . . . One of the reasons that the release of the Pentagon papers caused great concern in the CIA was that one of the items in the papers could only have come from the fact that we had [Leonid] Brezhnev's car bugged...
Although concerns about the potential abuses of harassment complaints cannot be dismissed entirely, to regard such a threat as the rule, not the exception, is absurd. Last fall's survey indicated that even students or faculty members who had suffered egregious harassment tended to be reluctant to report the incidents. Clearly the University's foremost concern must be to encourage reporting--not to discourage...
There seems to be a debate between those committed feminists who regard the attitudes espoused within the newsletter as something akin to a crime committed by a "bastion of beer swilling misogynists," and Club members, who treat the matter lightly and cannot understand the commotion over such an innocuous thing as a joke, a parody. On one level, of course the newsletter was a joke (crude though it was). Yet one cannot help but sense that the basis of such joking lies in something concrete, in the images of women that are continuously reinforced by advertising, books, television, movies...
...dispersed, we fear that the Pi Eta will become just another isolated incident. But we cannot, and should not, rest easy, secure in the belief that an injustice has been exposed and the problem solved. We are all still guilty of more subtle manifestations of sexist views, which regard women as objects to be valued and given meaning...