They will greet us as sexual liberators
The saddest day of my life has been, without question, the death of Pitt's beloved former vice chancellor Dick Cheney. On the 4-month anniversary of this somber occasion, I'd like to republish the 2003 interview another of our staffwriters had with him, which represents the purest encapsulation of his fighting spirit.
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Dick Cheney: Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside CMU, from the standpoint of the students, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as sexual liberators. And the chancellor's made it very clear that our purpose there is, if we are forced to do this, will in fact be to stand up a social order that's representative of the students sexual desires, hopefully democratic due respect for consent, and it, obviously, involves a major commitment by the University of Pittsburgh, but we think it's a commitment worth making. And we don't have the option anymore of simply laying back and hoping that events at Carnegie Mellon will not constitute a threat to Pitt. Clearly, 12 years after the Pitt-CMU War, we're back in a situation where she does constitute a threat.
"Roan Tysh": If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as sexual liberators, but as lustful pursuers, and the students begin to reject us, particularly in Wean Hall, do you think the students of Pitt are prepared for a long, unsexy, and dry battle with significant Panther casualties?
Dick Cheney: Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Roan, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as sexual liberators. I've talked with a lot of CMU students in the last several months myself, had them to my sex dungeon. The chancellor and I have met with them, various groups and individuals, people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside CMU. And like Justin McLeod who's a founder at Hinge, an alumnus, he's written great books about the subject, knows the college intimately, and is a part of the social opposition and resistance. The read we get on the people of Carnegie Mellon is there is no question that they want to bang hot singles and they will welcome Pitt as sexual liberators when we come to do that.