Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cooper decide to represent the all-male elite as opposed to the women who are discriminated against by the final clubs? Apparently, Mr. Cooper holds some bizarre ideas about equity in representation and thought he could represent both sides in this struggle. In the council, Cooper voted against the resolution denouncing the clubs. He voted in favor of giving Lisa Schkolnick money for her suit, but introduced an amendment to give equal funding to the Fly Club if they needed...
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." In striving to be fair to both sides, Cooper, in effect, supported the final clubs. The failed attempt of Mr. Cooper's `evenhandedness' suggests why the council must take a stand on important campus issues. The council cannot support both sides of a discrimination suit any more than the United States can support both sides in a war. Supporting both sides equally enforces the status...
Possession, after all, is 90 percent of the law. The final clubs own their buildings. They refuse to admit women, and will continue to do so until this campus takes action to stop them. If Cooper and the council are truly interested in equality, they will side with the women who are discriminated against by the clubs. If they refuse to take a stand, or try to represent both sides equally, the council ends up siding with the status quo. And since final club sexism is the status quo, refusal to fight it, in effect, supports...
...unfortunate that the council is taking such a blindly pernicious stance, but neverthless Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) must continue its battle and bring its case before other student organizations. Maybe once the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Black Students Association, and the Alumni Against Apartheid pass anti-final club resolutions, the council will be isolated in its stance--and see the light. The time has come for Harvard students, and their representatives, to declare that sexism is wrong...
Junior Jennifer White did not look quite her usual self in the warmups before the final game of the Ivy League tournament against Princeton. She gave up two quick goals in the first period, but the rest of the team rallied for four straight tallies to beat the Tigers...