Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought-provoking letter to the Crimson, Undergraduate Council Vice-Chairman Jeffrey A. Cooper '90 refuted my strongly worded February 29th column which, among other things, criticized Mr. Cooper for seeking to "represent the students in the final clubs as much as those who aren't." I had argued that it was unreasonable for the Vice Chairman to favor final club members, who represent "a small minority of the college population...
...black students or women. And of course, he is right. However, he doesn't stop there. In brilliant rhetorical style he advances from a defensive position into a high-flung moral argument, invoking Tocqueville's "tyranny of the majority" to defend his representation of that poor, tyrannized campus minority, final club members. Mr. Cooper will not, he says, "yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination" against final club members...
...Tocqueville myself, but I'm not sure that a defense of the moneyed elite was what Alexis had in mind when he wrote his tome. The final clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...
...elitism of the clubs is unmistakeable. Also unmistakeable is the fact that final club members aren't your typical oppressed minority. You can test this by looking at what their reaction would be to the removal of their special status. Final club members would be disappointed if you took away their male-bonding luncheons, fine houses, and beer parties with Wellesley women. Women, however, would be very pleased to have access to the final clubs' resources and connections, to be paid equally for equal work, and to be free from sexual harrassment at the hands of men well-trained...
...Harvard and St. Lawrence are the only two teams from last year to repeat as Final Four participants. Last year in the championship game, the Crimson defeated the Saints...