Word: elitist
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...ladies come to your clubs because, at three in the morning, you're the only game in town? How can Kahn consider others to lack the social skills common to the majority of our nation's college students, when the final clubs can be described as sexist, racist, elitist, classist and homophobic...
This is not because the clubs are the elitist centers of debauchery that they envision but rather because these people do not have the social skills common to the majority of our nation's college students. Perhaps, when these socially challenged students figure out that there is more to college life than classes and studying, there will be viable social options available to the entire student body...
Final clubs have long represented a stigma of values our College once embodied but has now rightly rejected. They are socially elitist, akin to the exclusive rich, old boys' clubs of days past. As the clubs are male-only and often create an uncomfortable environment for female guests (who, admittedly, enter the clubs of their own free will), they are sexist. One part of the Owl's new policy, which stipulates that at least one of a member's two guests must be female, is another example of that sexism. The College has chosen not to recognize final clubs because...
...logic is flawed. Closing the clubs to non-members will not reduce sexism or social elitism. Because this trend is unlikely to precipitate the demise of the clubs, supporting it is akin to sticking one's head in the sand. Just as Harvard has reformed itself from an elitist, exclusively Protestant institution, the clubs must reform. Their physical plants represent enormous resources, and increased restriction only allows a small group of students to continue to hoard them. A true victory for the clubs' critics would entail positive change and not merely containment...
...number of those who were in support of the proposal, when contacted by The Crimson yesterday, said they continue to have concerns about what they see as the closed and elitist nature...