Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RESOLVED, That the Undergraduate Council hereby endorses Schkolnick's suit, condemns the final clubs for sexism and elitism, and urges every undergraduate to avoid all contact with these monsterous institutions...
...agreed to give Schkolnick $250, but at the same time it refused to endorse her suit. More recently, it rejected a weaker resolution which urged the clubs to admit women. As a result of its studied ambivalence, the Council can count on being on the winning side of the final club dispute--no matter which side wins...
Those of us who have strong feelings on the final club issue, or any other issue where the Council tries to take a "moderate," nonconfrontational stand, are not taken seriously; in purporting to represent the students on such matters, the Council, as the official student representative, winds up diluting strong student sentiment. If it wants to be anything other than the butt of chocolate milk jokes, it needs to get some people upset--at least occasionally...
RESOLVED, That the Undergraduate Council hereby rejects Schkolnick's complaint as silly and frivilous and regards the final clubs as a positive good on Harvard's campus. It further asks that the University reinstate all ties with the clubs in order to help make final club life more palatable for members...
Consensus is no way to govern when it comes to questions on which people fundamentally disagree. Final clubs present just such an issue. Turnout at Council elections has been pathetically low recently; 40 percent of the student body in the last election. Next year, I suspect, it will reach its lowest point ever. When the organization insists upon not endorsing a suit but funding it nonetheless or when it demands an open meeting with the Corporation but accepts a closed meeting in the end, we are left with very little to vote upon come the next election...