Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy, which was designed by Interim University President Robbin Fleming, will go into effect at the beginning of May. During April, the Board will accept recommendations from students, alumni, or national groups who wish to amend the policy...
Yale's seven secret societies accept only seniors, about 12 each year, and are Yale's equivalent of Harvard's final clubs. The societies have no formal ties to the university, own their own land, are not on a centrex phone system and are not recognized as official student organizations, said Walter Litell, a Yale spokesman. Like the final clubs, they have been accused of being networking organizations and "bastions of elitism...
Bill Henning, a member of Yale's all-male Skull and Bones society, said one of the reasons Scroll and Key may have decided to accept women was that they were the most vulnerable to a lawsuit and that it will have little influence on the remaining all-male societies...
Chinn said the societies' alumni are reluctant to accept women partly because they fear going co-ed will hurt networking at the societies. But she said another society, Skull and Bones, was also thinking of going...
...Kevin Baker, Schkolnick's lawyer, said "from a legal point of view, it indicates a growing awareness or willingness [to accept] that that kind of segregation is reprehensible...