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...only the latest in a series of disturbing events in the history of final clubs. The same year that the Skull and Bones club of Yale decided to tap women into its secret society, Harvard's now-defunct Pi Eta club was settling a 1988 alleged rape suit. In 1991 final clubs voted to adopt the College alcohol policy; three days later three clubs broke it. Later that same year Pi Eta closed forever, two rapes allegedly having taken place behind its doors...
...Rape and Rhetoric
Jordana R. Lewis's clearly heart-felt concern for what she describes as the "epidemic that preys upon the Harvard campus" ("Date Rape Happens at Harvard," Nov. 30) is not altogether reasonable. No doubt there are grains of truth in her sincere conviction that there are many more cases of date rape than the Harvard University Police Department or the University acknowledge. However, she should refrain from using words such as "epidemic" when she can offer readers lots of speculations but few hard facts...
Highly charged and unsubstantiated rhetoric is misplaced in any reasoned discussion of rape at Harvard, for it abstracts a very important issue into so much public hysteria and paranoia. Of little help to rape victims themselves, it only serves to brand our population of young men--most of whom are not brutes and cads--with undue suspicion...
...addition to debate over the Ad Board, the forum featured representatives of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and other support groups, who spoke and distributed information about resources for victims of sexual violence...