Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University severed its ties with the nine all-male final clubs, which today still stand as reminders of a Harvard that should have passed away long ago. With separate entrances for women, and an elitist atmosphere designed to propagate a traditional social hierarchy, the clubs have no place at this university. At any university for that matter...
...even if women and Blacks and Jews are invited to punch, the clubs will still remain socially elitist in their admissions policies and discriminate against students who can't pay dues. Faculty members and students who frequent the clubs continue to buy into this system. The law can only force the clubs to go co-ed, it cannot eradicate their moneyed elitism...
Canada's Fitness and Sport Minister, former Skater Otto Jelinek, apparently agreed, and asked O.C.O. to "cease and desist" from harassing small companies that were clearly not hurting the licensing efforts. O.C.O. has taken added lumps over public suspicions that it is elitist -- giving sponsors & preferential treatment on tickets and accommodations, being more interested in playing host to such visiting royalty as Norway's King Olav, Spain's Juan Carlos and Monaco's Prince Rainier than it is in the people of the host city. "I hope the Games do show a profit," says Reg Brown, 44, a rancher outside...
...those who didn't make it through the final clubs' punching period: chin up--there might still be hope. Why not try out for one of Cambridge's elitist "fashion gangs?" If you can withstand the rigorous "fashion checks" and afford a wardrobe of trendy Williwear, these gangs may be just what you're looking for. In fact, you can see Cambridge's most elite fashion gangs fight for fashion this weekend in the rap musical production of The Gang's New Threads...
Such discrimination is elitist, self-serving, invidious, and totally at odds with any claim that Harvard is a national university serving the national interests of integrating diverse groups and educating the most talented individuals...