Word: elitists
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First, the staff directs its wrath toward the "elitist" nature of the clubs. This position, when taken to its logical conclusion, bears frightening consequences for American society...
...which Harvard judges its applicants, is probably more arbitrary, more innate and less under our control than personality traits. Yet the staff does not call for the dissolution of selective educational institutions in favor of an egalitarian public system. Morever, most Americans don't find the existence of such elitist associations as country clubs especially objectionable...
...staff points to the clubs' history of racism and anti-Semitism as proof of the ills begat by elitist institutions. There is no denying the inglorious past of the clubs, but again, I do not hear anyone suggesting a boycott of Harvard, which itself took part in propagating the same parochial atitudes...
John S. Savett '89-'90, the student chair of Hillel, said he frowned on any organization that might be seen as elitist and that might make people uncomfortable. He said the fraternity also reflects poorly on the Hillel because Hillel has always tried to be a social organization promoting a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere...
Well, he reflected later, the planet can no longer sustain the luxury of pure wild walking, which may in any case carry a certain taint of the elitist or the narcissist, a demand for virginity. (Americans and Europeans have always liked to think of themselves as the first white men ever to have walked into some wild place...