Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most eager-beaver first-years, no matter how high their high school G.P.A., their number of varsity letters, their impressive executive club leadership titles and general well-roundedness, question the accuracy of the admissions selection process. Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73, director of admissions, asserts that no Harvard students are "mistakes." But that doesn't mean mistakes can't still happen--especially this year...
...Fiction: The Seneca is a regular old final club or sorority, but just seems odd because it doesn't have a building...
...Fact: The Seneca is not a final club because its application process and main parties are "open." It is not a sorority because it is not part of a nation-wide organization. This should be obvious by the fact that its name does not consist of a couple Greek letters. No female social organizations have buildings. (Please see Butler's quote in previous fact...
...Fiction: If the Seneca is neither a final club nor a sorority, it must be a feminist political organization that rose up in response to the death of Radcliffe. Initiation events feature bra-burning...
...Fact: Seneca members do not want the group to be coed. Previous co-president Kirstin E. Butler '01, along with two other members, dropped out within six months of the group's founding. One of their goals for the club had been to begin a dialogue with the male final clubs about becoming coed, and they felt it would be hypocritical to embark on such a task as a single-sex group...