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...damage Eisert has done his office is not only symbolic. Being a club member presents him with a serious conflict of interest. Final club members are instructed by their clubs not to talk to the press about anything relating to the clubs. What will Eisert do when he has to represent the student body, and not the clubs, on issues concerning both...
...Eisert's membership in a final club is an insult to women undergraduates and to the 90 percent of the student body that the clubs deem unworthy of membership. Final clubs perpetrate an attitude that encourages members to treat the rest of the world as second class citizens--to make them enter the clubs through side doors, to bar them from certain rooms, to devalue and look down upon them...
Sexism at the final clubs is not limited to discriminating against women in choosing members. The clubs engage in traditions and practices that have resulted in a number of incidents of sexual harrassment. Whatever Eisert's private views, how can he represent the interests of students victimized by such activities if he has destroyed his public credibility on such issues...
...Eisert ought to resign from the Owl Club and reaffirm to the community that he rejects what the final clubs stand for. The Undergraduate Council should censure Eisert for his decision to join a club and should publicly reaffirm its opposition to sexism and elitism in our community. If Eisert does not resign from the Owl Club, the council ought not to reelect him next semester...
...grants to students groups. Our criticism is motivated by the belief that it can and should be more. If council members are at all concerned about maintaining their credibility as the legitimate representatives of the entire student body, they will move as quickly as possible to distance themselves from Eisert's decision...