Word: clubbings
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Both of us are final club members (one of us is in his third year in a club), and the horror stories of rape and debauchery leave us mystified. We obviously cannot speak for any club but our own--until Perspective did us all the service of publishing a map of club locations, we couldn't have even told you where half of them were. But while we are in no position to generalize about "all clubs" or some generic creature called a "clubbie," neither are any of the clubs' vocal critics (although that fails to stop them). Our club...
...only actual accounts of club misconduct published in the campus press concern the Pi Eta, but the Pi is not a final club. The anti-final club stories make titilating reading, but no one has yet been willing or able to accuse anyone of anything. It is somehow enough to accuse "the clubs" of such things, or slyly to insinuate that such abuses are "common knowledge." The collective trial and sentencing of club members in the court of campus opinion has left us a bit baffled. Critics of the clubs have adopted the desperate tactic of deliberately and viciously slandering...
Character assassination by innuendo is hardly new, but these tactics are really all the militants have left. The legal case against the Fly Club (if indeed it ever emerges from MCAD at all) is tenuous at best. Even Perspective now admits that if the clubs are really private property there is (or should be) no further debate. In a choice between the continued existence of the final clubs and government assumption of the right to tell private citizens with whom they must associate on their own private property, the clubs must win. The freedom of association guaranteed by the Constitution...
Ultimately, of course, it is hard to find unequivocal grounds on which to condemn the clubs. Benign discrimination on the basis of sex is commonplace in our society: Radcliffe denies its externship programs programs and grant money (as well as its diploma) to males, the varsity football squad rejects aspiring female linebackers and neither sex is allowed in the other's respective public bathrooms. Militant smear tactics are the last refuge of those unable to make a compelling legal argument that will distinguish between the Fly Club and things as harmless as Wellesley College, both institutions that deny their benefits...
...state agency investigating charges of gender discrimination against the all-made Fly Club has asked the club to answer a new set of questions, and with that information it could wrap up the case, an official of the quasi-judicial body said yesterday...