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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...
...many parents feel they have no choice. A college diploma, once the passport to upward mobility, is becoming a necessity just to avoid falling out of the middle class. Frank Levy, a University of Maryland economist, calculates that in the early 1970s a 30-year-old male college graduate could expect to earn at least 15% more than a 30-year-old with a high school diploma. By 1986 the gap had grown...
Peggy Forrester, the one with the Ford Tempo, is the middle child -- 30 years old, well dressed, articulate, with a high school diploma and an assortment of credits from a local junior college. She has worked her way up to become a manager of a retail clothing store. Her salary of $25,000 a year sounds quite respectable. Nevertheless, she had to live at home until last year. "I couldn't afford to move out," she says. She makes about $300 a week after taxes. (The withholding includes $32 a week in Social Security tax that will help...
...year-old Los Angeles native says she has always wanted to be a musician, and that she came to Harvard primarily because of the prestige of the diploma and because she liked the students. "Harvard was an insane asylum. I loved it," she says...
Leventhal's North House senior tutor, Robert Franklin, said yesterday that he too had not been informed about whether the College intends to take disciplinary action against her. If the College does take such action, Franklin said, it would have to notify him before the senior receives her diploma at Commencement Exercises tomorrow...