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Pi Eta, Take Two

Keeping Track

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An exclusive all-male student club writes a raunchy in-house newsletter and sticks it in members' mailboxes. It gets into the hands of non-members.

Within days, the letter is posted all over campus, and administrators rush to condemn the club, which now laces disciplinary proceedings.

Sound familiar? No, it's not the Pi Eta Newsletter Incident of last spring. It's the Johns Hopkins Tau Epsilon Phi Newsletter Incident of last week, and it's the big news in Baltimore.

The frat boys wrote:

"I suddenly feel a bulge growing in my pants, which I force down your... throat, shouting, '--me off and let me shove my fist up your--,'"

The head of the fraternity, Paul Connaughton, publicly apologized, telling the Hopkins students newspaper that "the fact that this newsletter was not intended for public viewing does not in any way excuse its content."

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