Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) brings role-playing to a frighteningly bizarre level. The Society credits itself with "recreat[ing] the good aspects of the Middle Ages in the modern world." Yes, membership in this club does indeed require one to don chain mail and brandish a rubber saber. But consider the perks. One staged spar in front of the Science Center will surely hook you-there's nothing quite like that first "Connecticut Yankee" adrenaline rush. President Alice H. Kao `01 says club membership is tailored to individual interests, noting that "there are different parts of the club. Depending...
...Harvard Tiddlywinks Society meets up a few times a year to work the wink and test the tiddly. According to President Frank E. Pacheco `99, the Society lies "somewhere between a club and a team, and is in a continuous battle to find intercollegiate competition." It seems that few are up to the challenge, though, and the Society's games remain confined to intra-Harvard play. Pacheco says the club welcomes newcomers and is basically just a social game that's not very strenuous. The club organizes one tournament per year and insists on using only the finest imported English...
...Five classes, captaining dorm crew, intramural curling: every Harvard student knows how to juggle the parts of their so-called life. Now learn how to do it with bowling pins! Every Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., the Harvard Juggling Club meets to practice pin-tossing and other aerial acrobatics. In rare good weather the stage of choice is Tercentenary Theater; the club gathers in the MAC Mezzanine the other 11.5 months of the year. Newcomers are welcomed with open and dexterous arms, as founder and President Daniel I. Cousin `00 stresses that absolutely no previous juggling experience is necessary...
...dreamers and the philosophically inclined (especially the social studies fanatics of Harvard), the Harvard Objectivist Club (HOC) welcomes interested students to attend its weekly meetings, lectures and videotape viewings. Ayn Rand, mother of Objectivism, preached "objective reality, reason, rational self-interest and capitalism." According to HOC President Joseph C. Anderson `99, philosophical experience is helpful but not necessary for understanding guest lecturers and essay discussions. "One can still grasp Rand's meaning," notes Anderson, "without being an expert on continental philosophy or the English empiricists." Oh goodie. E-mail hoc@hcs.harvard.edu for meeting times and more information. Happy pondering...
Aspects of final 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...