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Final clubs have long represented a stigma of values our College once embodied but has now rightly rejected. They are socially elitist, akin to the exclusive rich, old boys' clubs of days past. As the clubs are male-only and often create an uncomfortable environment for female guests (who, admittedly, enter the clubs of their own free will), they are sexist. One part of the Owl's new policy, which stipulates that at least one of a member's two guests must be female, is another example of that sexism. The College has chosen not to recognize final clubs because...
...club culture are indeed contrary to the values of this College, and that is why the Staff's logic is flawed. Closing the clubs to non-members will not reduce sexism or social elitism. Because this trend is unlikely to precipitate the demise of the clubs, supporting it is akin to sticking one's head in the sand. Just as Harvard has reformed itself from an elitist, exclusively Protestant institution, the clubs must reform. Their physical plants represent enormous resources, and increased restriction only allows a small group of students to continue to hoard them. A true victory...
...much the better that the Y2K bug is something akin to the original sin of technological society, a mortal flaw bred in the very bones of the modern world. And that the proposed solution is a head-for-the-hills survivalism that speaks nicely to the enduring American fascination with ingenuity and self-reliance. And as it has for decades, the prospect of apocalypse now also offers the promise of escape to millions of people alienated from a civilization of intimidating global corporations, boundless personal gratification and unnerving manipulations of nature, like cloning...
...Math 55 covers the content of Math 21 with maximal generality and rigor," he says. "It is comparable to a graduate course. The types of assumptions it makes about students are more akin to graduate level than 100-level courses, which you can walk in on with no background on the material...
...endowment lost roughly 10 percent of its value over the summer as tremors shook markets around the world. HMC investments in emerging market in Russia and domestic funds akin to hedge funds were hit especially hard...