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...senior, I have seen the Undergraduate Council change from a elitist organization run by representatives of the final club "old boys" network to a much more democratic and truly representative organization which is slowly but surely achieving greater legitimacy in the eyes of the students and administration...
...Jones just sounds pompous and elitist when he calls Gibson's speech "a mockery of the Harvard tradition." Does the tradition not allow a joke or two, and horror of horrors, even a little profanity. You're correct Mr. Jones, Gibson did not have any grand theories of wisdom or life-altering realizations, and maybe by your standards that means his speech was worthless. Well forgive me if I don't buy into your standards, but I thought Mel Gibson was generous to donate his time, and worth listening to if only because of his humor and joviality. If those...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I'm not an elitist. I'm not personally wealthy, and I don't just come around when I'm running for office...
...staff's position seems to be that final clubs are bad because they are exclusive and elitist, so let's support new restrictions that will make them even more exclusive and elitist. Perhaps the staff feels that by turning the final clubs back into highly restricted gentlemens's clubs, they will somehow wither and disappear. This is dubious at best; they have been here for almost a century and aren't going anywhere; we should advocate that they open themselves up to the rest of the community, not vice-versa...
...simple answer to this is that life is inherently exclusive and elitist. Every time you choose not to hang out with a person because you find him or her boring, or annoying, you are being elitist. Every time you plan a rough-and-tumble game of football and call only your guy friends, you are being exclusive...