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...well-off kids stealing from a bunch of other well-off kids, with neglible harm done. Fascinating though they are, I don’t appreciate reading quotations from final club and sorority spokespersons in articles seeking to track the progress of thousands of dollars from one elitist social club to another. The fact of these transfers’ illegality is certainly interesting, but hardly of dire importance to anyone besides said spokespersons. How absolutely horrifying that the Pudding may have unwittingly helped to sponsor a Theta-Delphic mixer! Is there really nothing better for The Crimson to report...
...institutions that unites our country, in a physical as well as spiritual sense, by connecting the small towns and cities of the West and South to the populous coastal and Midwest corridors. Splitting those people off from service, as some would propose, is deeply elitist, and would cast into Depression-era isolation the very people who in so many ways are the backbone of this country. JAMES REPASS PRESIDENT AND CEO THE NATIONAL CORRIDORS INITIATIVE Providence...
...regard to Yale, although we try to. Our safety school cheer rings pretty hollow given the large number of kids who choose Yale over Harvard or come to Harvard because they didnt get into Yale. At Duke, however, we all know UNC sucks, and they think that we are elitist, private-school snobs...
Predictably, the perpetual battle over final clubs has flared up again this year. Some champion the clubs as the last bastions of student social life in Harvard Square. Others deride them as elitist, since they exclude the majority of Harvard students from membership. This exclusivity really irks the clubs’ opponents, who claim that the clubs are the last remaining vestiges of the old WASP elite at Harvard...
According to Truszkowska, the common final club practice of only letting women through their doors separates girls from the men they trust and puts them in the company of strangers, sending “the message that you are being desired as a woman. The idea of an elitist organization of all males puts forth a huge power dynamic,” Truskowska opines. “It’s like they’re telling you, ‘You’re in my house, partying with my friends, my boys. This is my territory, and you?...