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Parody of Frug Article Draws Angry Response

Law Review Spoof Leaked to the Public

"I have to tell you, I've never met EmilySchulman before this evening, but she reallyscares me," the students quoted Fried as saying.

Fried went on to call Schulman "threatening,""powerful" and "formidable" the students said.

Students protesters said Fried's remarks were afurther insult to women, in addition to the parodyof Frug's work.

One Law School student who signed the response,Andrea Brenneke, wrote that Fried's words are anexample of "the resistance and acts of retaliationleveled against women for entering into positionsof authority within traditionally white, male andprivileged institutions."

Schulman also criticized Fried last night,saying that the tradition of toastmaster "does notexplain anything."

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Fried could not be reached for commentyesterday.

The article which was parodied in the spoofissue--Frug's "A Postmodern Feminist LegalManifesto (An Unfinished Draft)"--Was originallypublished in the Review in March of thisyear.

According to the student response letter,Law Review members were split on whetherFrug's article should be published.

Students who were opposed to the publicationtook revenge for the final decision to publish bywriting the hateful parody, according toBreakneck.

Tracey Merwise, another third-year Law Schoolstudent who helped organize the response, saidthat what began as a tasteless spoof became"warped."

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Although only those who attended theReview banquet were supposed to receivecopies of the Harvard Law Revue, the spoofissue, "some unknown person stuck a Xerox of thecover sheet and inside front page into Law Schoolstudents' mailboxes," Manley Williams said.

Neither Frug's husband, Gerald Frug, nor herson steven Frug '93 could be reached for commentlast night.

Student protesters called the parodymisogynistic, and an example of the Law School'spoor record on dealing with women and minorities.

"I think that this is an unusual display ofmisogyny in that it's so blatant, so clear, soraw," Dodge said."

And Julia R. Godrdon '85, a third-year LawSchool student, who said she has been called infront of the Administrative Board forparticipating in a sit-in at Fried's office onMarch 18, said she found it ominous that theLaw Review was the forum for this sort ofdisrespect.

"The faculty holds the key" to increasing itsdiversity, Gordon said, adding, "The LawReview is the place where professors areincubated.

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