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...Leslie A. Garbarino ’04. Still, this bubbly, curly-haired junior has been doing her share of nurturing—39 strapping young men on campus call her “Mom.” Garbarino holds the title of “Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Mom,” an honorary female position in every chapter of the all-male fraternity. Girls on the inside of Harvard’s fraternities have privileged access to the real character of the campus’ Greek life, which they say is a far cry from the beer-chugging...
...SAE brother William L. Smith ’03 says that at colleges with residential Greek life, the mom is traditionally an older woman who lives in the house, often the widow of an SAE. Her job in the fraternity is to offer maternal love to the students who live away from their own families. “She’s not there to supervise them or to discipline them; she’s there to care for them and to look out for their well-being,” he writes in an e-mail...
Garbarino says she was appointed as the SAE mom earlier in the year, when the fraternity was looking for a responsible girl to list on the chapter paperwork. She says she agreed to take on the title because she had a lot of friends who were members. Garbarino laughs at the idea that the role of the mom carries any serious responsibility. The closest that she comes to cooking, she says, is the mere thought of it. “I have to feel free to bake them cookies,” she says. “I feel free...
While being surrounded by the football players and rowers of SAE might ordinarily give rise to decidedly unmaternal feelings in most girls, Garbarino insists the only “instinct” she has towards her frat “sons” is a protective one. “You see them with girls and you want the girls to be nice to them,” she says...
...perfection—are regular fare in porn magazines. Worldwide credulity and the enthusiasm of Western business moguls to import the fake trend, however, highlights the larger cultural issue of the “Asian Fetish.” Harvard-Radcliffe Japan Society spokesperson and Student Activities Council representative Sae Takada ’03 says, “I think it’s appalling how eagerly people believed it—it shows how Japanese pop culture, especially Japanese women, are exoticised in the eyes of the Western world...