Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Final clubs do not admit women, except during special occasions such as parties, when they admit lost of them. Some people believe this is discrimination, largely because it is discrimination. Final club members say they just want to male bond, except during parties, when they have other things on their minds...
...legal question, the Massachussets Commission Against Discrimination, a quasi-judicial body, will decide whether the clubs should be required to admit women. As a philosophical question, final clubs will always be debated and never resolved. But as a practical question, the solution for students is obvious: Males and females should boycott the clubs...
SKEPTICS take heart. Remember that last year the council forged a consensus on a broad range of divisive and complex issues for the first time in recent years. It condemned the socially elite, discriminatory final clubs; it organized credible student support for minority and women hiring reform at the University; it defined previously unvoiced anxieties over campus security. The council also came out (belatedly) in opposition to house assignment changes and backed the clerical and technical worker's union. These were not negligible accomplishments...
...order to preserve its gains, the council must hit the ground running. To begin with, few actions could do more to underscore the continuity--really, legitimacy--of the council than to restate its opinion on final clubs, minority and women faculty hiring and security...
CLEARLY, gender discrimination is the main issue surrounding the final clubs, and it should be taken seriously. But the staff seems to be picking and choosing the Constitutional rights it deems worthy to advocate. Constitutional provisions for the freedom of association and the right to privacy should not be trivialized in the manner of such flippant phrases as "right to exist." Certainly they are worthy of the same consideration afforded gender discrimination...