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...College or the University to publicly condemn a campus incident. It is perhaps unprecedented for the two to join in their moral outrage. But last week, both President Bok and Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 issued strongly worded statement denouncing the now infamous Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter, which droolingly depicted an upcoming party as a stockyard slaughter with the women guests playing the livestock. And Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner this week issued her own condemnation of the newsletter. Fox wrote that "the letter makes a mockery of basic standards of civility, which the College...
Defendants of the Pi Eta complain that such official actions are themselves immoral as they tresspass on the sacrosanct territory of free speech. Yet this logic confuses the principles involved. Few people deny the club the legal right to make whatever statements it wants. But the University and its members have the same right to declare that viewpoint inappropriate and to try and discourage it. While that policy would be disconcerting if applied liberally, all but the staunchest of libertarians would have to concede that it can be used against blatant sexism or racism without poisoning the atmosphere for free...
Some have floated the idea that that response should come from the Ad Board, the College's disciplinary body. In the Pi Eta case, however, disciplinary action is ill-suited to the problem at hand. First, it is unclear whether all club members should be held responsible for the letter. More important, though, disciplinary measures offer little hope of promise of affecting the attitudes that are expressed in the newsletter...
Putting the newsletter aside. I see that in discussions of whether or not the club should be closed, it has been argued that the Pi Eta performs a vital function for the Harvard community. I know of no services given to the community by the Pi Eta, with the possible exceptions of loud parties for its members, lethal amounts of alcohol for its members, and, as the newsletter points out, unlimited sex for its members. While social functions are unquestionably important and an integral part of any college experience, they are not enough to tip the scales in favor...
...chance that the Pi Eta or its alumni board might be seeking some worthy community service project into which it might direct some energy and money. I might point out that RESPONSE now exists in very cramped quarters in the tunnels of Lowell House. 45 Mt. Auburn St. seems the perfect location for the new spacious home of RESPONSE and its newly established Pi Eta Library. Start A. Kirsch...