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Many cavalierly dismiss objections by asserting that final clubs are just like fraternities at other schools. I’m not entirely sure that this is true—the concentration of wealth and power in Harvard??s clubs seems fairly unique—but even if it were, the argument is unpersuasive since the potential existence of similar injustices on other campuses is not a particularly compelling reason to tolerate injustice here...
...place to look for answers is Harvard??s peer institutions, Princeton and Yale, both of which possess old, powerful, exclusive social clubs that integrated about two decades ago. These schools’ students do not seem to spend their time pining for the single-sex days of yesteryear. Geoff C. Shaw, a senior at Yale, says that "cohesive would be one of the first words to come to mind" when describing Yale’s co-ed secret societies. Under gender segregation, he believes the clubs would be compromised. "You’d be missing...
Preferences are molded by experience, so it’s possible that current Yale and Princeton students value co-ed clubs simply because they’ve never known anything else. But it seems much more likely that Harvard??s single-sex defenders are plagued by status quo bias...
Because as hard as I found it to explain the necessity of male dominance over Harvard??s social space to my mother, just wait 20 years. Try explaining it to your daughter...
...Harvard??s stance that “relationships between officers and students are always fundamentally asymmetric in nature” means that the rules apply to teachers and students “outside the instructional context.” The guidelines note that a faculty member could unexpectedly be put in a position of responsibility for a student, including writing a letter of recommendation or serving on a selection committee for a student...