Word: ares
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ONE of Harvard's most attractive features for many perspective students is its lack of selective social clubs. Although the final clubs are still a bane to the Harvard community, so we can at least take comfort that their members make up only about 5 percent of the student population...
As the make-up of the student body increasingly reflects the diversity of the country as a whole, it is disturbing that these students should want to separate themselves from the whole. As Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III correctly points out, it is ironic that "while many colleges...
THE staff points out the University's anti-discrimination policy. These ground rules prohibit organizations from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, color, sexual orientation or national origin. As the staff notes, these rules are unquestionably just. And they are a valid basis for barring any organization that discriminates...
THERE is no inherent evil in national affiliation. While one would be hard pressed to find a beneficial racist organization, there are plenty of national organizations that make substantive contributions to society.
Fraternities and sororities should be confronted and exposed for the truly anti-social institutions that they are. But if they are to fail, it should be because students choose to avoid them and not because unjustified rules are selectively applied aginst them.