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...Inter-Club Graduate Council of the Harvard final clubs took a brave and necessary step this summer by banning beer kegs at all club buildings and restricting club guest policies. In making the clubs more exclusive, the council is rightly returning them to the days when they were "gentlemen's" clubs and, we hope, pushing them into a gentle obscurity thoroughly removed from the Harvard social scene and leading to their eventual disappearance altogether...
...name for itself as a school without exclusive clubs that dominate its social scene, the graduate boards must make sure that the new restrictions are followed. No kegs may mean that students will drink more hard liquor, but at least it will discourage free-for-all slurping. The guest policy that limits each club member to two registered guests at all times except parties, requires the club's graduate board president to approve all parties and holds members responsible for the safety of their visitors keeps the number of students in the clubs at any time a small proportion...
...uninformed as well as ludicrous. The staff is wholly ignorant of the nature of the clubs. For example, the staff mentions that women must enter some clubs through side doors, but are unaware that these clubs have separate entrances for members and non-members, regardless of whether these guest are male or female. The staff's characterization of the clubs as simply areas where students pass through on weekends proves that they know little of the actual activities and traditions of the clubs. Furthermore, the staff apparently feels comfortable insinuating that misconduct occurs within the clubs without any evidence...
Moyers begins each segment with a boiled-down version of the appropriate chapter and verse, narrated by an actor, either Alfre Woodard or Mandy Patinkin. Moyers limits his fellow conversationalists to seven per episode: but since Visotzky is the only guest who appears in more than two, the resulting cast comes to 39. It includes novelists like Bharati Mukherjee, John Barth and Mary Gordon; but also Bible experts, preachers, psychologists and a smattering of artists and poets. Among them are Catholics, Protestants, Jews, two Muslims, a Hindu, a Buddhist and several apparent agnostics. Yet in a choice that will reduce...
...Doubtful Guest," for example, one of Gorey's more charming tales, is about a silent, penguin-like creature who rings the doorbell of a family's home and refuses to leave. The passivity with which the genteel family accepts the intruder--despite his repeated attempts to eat the gramophone--typifies Gorey's stylized and subdued world...