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The council budgeted $982 for the concert in its motion, which passed unopposed with 41 votes and one abstention.
Undergraduate members voted unanimously with one abstention in September to seek approval from its graduates to go co-ed. After polling 1,100 of its living graduates, the Fly's council resolved last Wednesday that the club could admit women after a committee establishes guidelines for the change.
The undergraduates voted 28-0 with one abstention last month to ask the graduate council to drop the men-only membership rule. The council gave the final go-ahead this Wednesday after taking an informal poll of the club's alumni.
The proposal, approved by a vote of 28-0 with one abstention, calls on the club's graduate board to allow the club to admit women this fall. Logan said he hopes that the Fly will be able to admit women in the fall punch, which begins October 8th.
Do carriers of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, then, pose such a risk to the citizenry that they should be on the list of excluded? Notwithstanding Reiter's almost laughable claims that "routine contact between [the carriers] and the uninfected community will certainly include sexual activity" and that "intravenous...