Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Undergraduate Council has finally taken a step in the right direction with a resolution calling for final clubs to "voluntarily" alter their nature," we must ask how far they, and all students, are willing...
Little, if anything, will change in the final club situation because of the council's statement, which comes so long after the peak of debate last spring. It is past the time for mere discussion and statements. After months of debate on the morality of exclusive, all-male clubs on a campus that loudly touts its diversity, most students have made up their minds about whether they believe the clubs should admit women. Those who do, including the council, should demonstrate this belief, literally...
WHAT would the final clubs do if they threw parties and no one came, or held punches for new members and none of the candidates showed up? A campus-wide boycott of final clubs--their parties and punches--would send a much more effective message than did the council's statement, which one council member said final club members would probably use "to throw darts...
This ought to be a plan within the capabilities of the council. The council has the resources for publicity and the organization to gather support in each house. A boycott of the final clubs would be a truly active stand of which the Council could be proud...
DURING the 1986 campaign for the Massachusetts eighth congressional seat, then-candidate Joseph Kennedy II jogged through stalled traffic in Allston, shaking hands with motorists in a final effort to sway any remaining undecided voters. Shortly afterward, my friend Paul, who had spent the summer working construction in Cambridge, told me how his co-workers, having seen Kennedy on television, raved about his whistle-stop tour of the area's red lights...