Word: alle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discontent over Harvard's anemic social life, both campus-wide and within the houses, has inspired many students to seek alternatives. Some men join one of the nine all-male final clubs. But for most students--all women and those men who do not fit in these sexist and elitist...
The founders of all of these organizations have insisted that their groups would pursue public service activities, as well as social events.
And if the clubs do not want to restrict membership at all--and the founding members of the women's club say do not--why form a "club"? If everyone is truly welcome, why not organize parties for everyone? Integration requires actively working to include, not simply passively promising not...
ONE reason that at least two of these groups claim that they cannot accept members of the opposite sex is that the national organization will not allow it. Fraternities are traditionally all-male, explains Sigma Alpha Mu member Richard M. Geyser '90-'91.
As it is now, the national-affiliation policy is a threat to political and human rights groups all over the spectrum. If it were enforced as strictly as the staff proposes, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, Amnesty International, New Jewish Agenda, the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Democratic...