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Asahi devoted 10,000 words to the plight of Japan's 3,000,000 eta (literally: "very dirty") untouchables. The eta class, also known as hinin (not human), includes most of the Japanese nation's leatherworkers, shoemakers, butchers and slaughterhouse workers. Though the etas were formally abolished as a caste in 1871 under the Meiji Restoration and the word itself was removed from dictionaries, the prejudices that surrounded them survived almost unabated from the days when they were forbidden to pray at village shrines, go outdoors between sundown and sunrise, or marry outside their class...
...past week negotiations have been carried on for the Pi Eta Theatre or the Hasty Pudding stage, but neither house can be secured, Haliday said...
...Hasty Pudding will rewire its stage this summer, and the Pi Eta Theatre was unable to work out details involving its tax status with the dramatic group...
...Deathwatch," which deals with three prisoners in a death cell, ran at the Pi Eta Theatre from March...
Stephen A. Aaron '57, director of "Deathwatch," has announced a symposium on Jean Genet and his works to be held after the play's final performance tomorrow evening. Discussion will begin in the Pi Eta theatre...