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...must admit that after reading "The Bee: A Club of Their Own" (News, Feb. 17), my opinion of the club has changed for the better. While it is clear that there exists a discrepancy between the intellectual and emotional depth of the club as reported by its members and by those women punched who did not finally join, and while one may certainly charge that the organization fosters elitism and merely pays lip-service to the importance of diversity, have not most academic institutions been accused--and found guilty--of these same things...
What strikes me most is the relative awareness and legitimacy of the Bee as compared to its all-male counterparts. The Bee's tradition of donating a book to the group's collection moves in the direction of an intellectualism eschewed by the final clubs. The effort (transparent as it may be) to encourage diversity betrays some vague awareness of reality that stands out in stark comparison to that held by Douglas Sears '69, president of the Interclub Council, who legitimizes the final clubs by maintaining, "Men have always wanted a place of their own where they wouldn't have...
...clubs. If Sears' comment is any indication of the historic and prevailing final club attitude toward women ("We tried to get them to understand what goes into running a club. We tried to explain to them that being a landlord is no fun at all"), why, women of the Bee, do you have tea at the Fly as a punch event...
Women's Ice Hockey, of course, will take place in the Fly's back yard--oops, we mean the Bee...
Bross agrees, adding that the feeling ofcamaraderie that comes with being a Bee memberwill only increase when the club acquires abuilding...