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...early 1970s, women were almost immediately invited to join. "[The introduction of women] made it a lot more fun, and made it easier for the final clubs not to take women," Swistel recalled from his days during the transition. The final clubs kept their traditional role as a bastion of male camaraderie, while the Pudding altered their role to maintain a large following. The broadening spectrum of membership kept the Pudding popular, even during anti-club times. Had the Pudding not managed to include these other undergraduates, the club could have easily gone the way of clubs like...
Sure enough I sent my application that fateful November 15 and gave up any dreams I had of being a D-3 football stud--or sticking around the spot that Richard Nixon, that bastion of liberalism, once called "the Kremlin on the Charles." I wanted out of the confines of my native Boston. It was too small, boring and limiting. No, I needed the raging metropolis of Durham, North Carolina. Unfortunately, about fourteen months later I was banging out a transfer application on my computer--and for a variety of reasons. And that, folks, was my experience with Early Applications...
...Sunday evening, I snuck the 1988 cinematic classic "Bloodsport" past the snoozing guard and strode purposefully to the video room, following the strategically placed signs. The video room, for those who have never been, is a bastion of social deliciousness. There are six televisions to watch videotaped lectures, the same number of chairs, and, as luck would have it, four potential friends--two guys and two girls...
...South is a bastion of conservatism. In both the 1992 and 1996 elections, the Clinton-Gore ticket carried only two Southern states, excluding their home states of Arkansas and Tennessee. But they carried every state in the Northeast both times--and in 1996, the Democrats took Massachusetts with 63 percent of the vote, the highest of any state...
...Bradley spent the week fending off cheap shots (and effective politics) from Al Gore, his rival for the Democratic nomination, and spending big in New Hampshire to keep his poll numbers from slipping. And despite Gore's onslaught, by week's end it was Bradley's campaign--that bastion of honor--that had been forced to apologize for a shrill attack pamphlet it had distributed in New Hampshire. While Bradley's advisers in New Jersey were dealing with that little fiasco and wondering how they had managed to cede Gore the moral high ground, the candidate called them from California...