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...thoughts from a non-hysterical observer of the Pi Eta mess...
...comments by Pi Eta members watching the protest were crude. They were not without a point, however, i.e., is it not concern able that organizations such as GLSA are equally morally reprehensible to some students' (No! No! Never at such a broad-minded University!) Or is it the case that morality is judged by popular ballot--more people despise Pi Eta's sexual ethic (as allegedly represented in its newsletter) than despise other groups' sexual choices? If this is the case then prepare for the worst--and don't scream when some majority legislates your morality...
...Eta members have essentially, in the minds of many, been convicted of rape for what they've said This, though no reports of sexual abuse have issued from women attending the club's functions, this though women seem to have entered the club's party even during the protest Saturday night. I guess we are left to conclude that these women were incapable of caring for themselves. Big Sister to the rescue again...
...aspirants to the writing trade, would throw in with the priggish wing of the Left that leans all too blithely toward censorship. There is more virulent misogyny to be found in the books of Charles Bokowski or even Norman Mailer than in anything that ever circulated at the Pi Eta, yet I wouldn't want to see them removed from the stacks of Widener simply because a cult of cocksure feminists was camped on the front steps...
...Eta is the only bastion of pure Id on an extraordinarily neurotic and repressed campus. You'd hardly have to be a literal Freudian to think that this is what the conflict is all about. Paul Attanasio...