Word: sic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women within the community was again at issue this spring when a copy of the Pi Eta Club's official newsletter became public. The newsletter used violent and crude imagery to advertise in upcoming "Pigfest," including referring to women as "slobbering bovines fresh for the daughter and "grateful heffers [sic]." Cries of outrage were coupled with calls for the University to issue a prompt condemnation of the document, and this time officials were more prompt in their response. President Bok and Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 issued strongly worded condemnations--as did Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner...
...sexual objects, they are also viewed as either willing or deserving recipients of insults, manipulation, and forced sexual relations This is at the heart of both the professor accosting his students and the final club circular cajoling its members to "slice into one of these meaty but grateful heffers (sic)." Just as the survey showed that sexual harassment is epidemic at Harvard, the Pi Eta case must not be viewed as an isolated, unfortunate outbreak of "vulgarity." Pi Eta violated some code of discretion, failing to keep its behavior behind closed doors, this does not means that the attitudes expressed...
...women in exactly the same way as the Pi newsletter. The danger of this pornographic view of women lies not only in the represetnation of women as sub-human "slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," but in its message that women enjoy male sexual violence and aggression; "grateful heffers (sic)" As Chris Hayes pointed out in her insightful letter to The Crimson, the rape mentality created by pornography, and the Pi Eta club, allows men to sexually coerce and rape women with impunity. After all, "she wanted...
...HARVARD COMMUNITY has acted with justifiable anger and swiftness to the crude sexism exhibited in a newsletter put out to members of the Pi Eta Speakers Club. The letter--which referred to women as "grateful heffers" [sic] and "slobbering bovines," among other degrading terms--aroused a heated protest outside the club Saturday night by nearly 100 men and women students...
...doubly appreciated the friendship and support, particularly of Ben Brown at the Center, when, contrary to the normal practice, his associate fellowship was extended for a second year. In the third year, the time he was active in fearlessly speaking aloud for the restoration of democracy in the Philippines [sic...