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...Truth About Final Clubs?...
...unwelcome Harvard students, and I agree—even when a friend accuses me of causing male cronyism in financial institutions because I frequent final clubs (yes, me alone). For the fourth time in my Harvard career, I’m watching as my male friends go through the clubs?? vicious processes, and for the fourth time, I’m disgusted. I watch their self-esteem ebb and flow on the vacillating whims of “the members.” I listen with horror—and a little awe—to stories about...
...Music Hall in 1852 and served as the original home of the New England Conservatory (Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto debuted here, as did the BSO). Now, fans come to see modern acts that have grown too popular for the city’s small clubs?? [D]espite its tattered appearance (and so-so acoustics), all seats are filled for most shows.”The account could not speak more clearly or tragically. Where the air tastes like age and the band sounds like conceit framed by a stage and respectable album sales, Death...
...grievances goes on. Yet shockingly, people are treating the Isis emails as if they constitute some sort of scandal, when in fact all they’ve done is confirm what everyone essentially already knew. And honestly, just what is the big deal anyway? Particularly with the female final clubs??whose focuses seem to be primarily social—it’s hard to imagine how the selection process could appear anything but arbitrary. It simply mirrors the way most individuals choose their friends: who seems sweet or nice, who rubs us the right or wrong...
...It’s been said that the Isis is merely an exceptionally poor specimen of an elite, punch-based organization. We’ll never know, but let’s hope that scrawled in other, more prestigious clubs?? punch books is not more of the same mindless criteria, not a self-indictment like the Isis’ giddy prose has provided...