Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack the final clubs on strictly legal grounds for charging money and choosing who they want--thousands of (other clubs) do the same thing. Financiai elitism is protected by our laws, gender elitism is not." Gender discrimination is clearly practiced by the clubs: none of the nine presently admit women. Some would say this is an issue which would fall within the bounds of an argument on the interpretation of constitutional law, around the definition of the right of free association. I can't say if this is true, because I'm not a lawyer. Harvard's clubs, composed...
Speakes is surely not the first White House spokesman to fake a President's words, though he may be the first one to admit it. Washington is a city with a large industry devoted to making inarticulate politicians sound lucid, to turning what is prosaic into poetry. But, as Speakes ruefully admits now, even manufactured words ought to be placed in the proper mouth before they are passed out to history...
...clubs differ, however, on the critical issue of whom they plan to admit. Zeta Psi is all male, while Alpha Delta Phi pledges to allow both men and women to join as members. Two freshman females are also trying to start a sorority...
...seven diputable half-truths all one needs to know in order to understand the complexities of an issue that has riddled experts for forty years? The Arab students omit, not only their names from this poster, but also the story behind the statements. Perhaps they are scared to openly admit their support for an organization that takes greatest pride in the murder of disabled American Leon Klinghoffer, the 1972 massacre of Olympic Athletes in Munich, and the 1974 massacre of sleeping Israeli children in Ma'alot...
Fitzsimmons credits the increase in the number of women applying to better alumni recruiting. When Harvard and Radcliffe combined offices in 1975 to admit the class of 1980, "we knew that we had to get the word out to the families of female high school students" in order to encourage women to apply, he said...