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...Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) leaders negotiate with administrators about bringing the student group’s constitution into accordance with College non-discrimination guidelines, similar situations on other campuses have drawn the attention of civil liberties advocates...
Membership in HRCF is open to students of all faiths, however...
Religious student groups other than HRCF have found neither the council’s nor the College’s policy particularly cumbersome. Hillel, the Islamic Society and the Catholic Students Association, for example, all meet the non-discrimination requirement, as do non-religious identity groups like the Black Students Association and the Radcliffe Union of Students. None of these groups has been overrun by outsiders seeking to commandeer the organizations, the risk HRCF claims it would run were it to allow non-Christians to hold office...
Besides, if Jason L. Lurie ’05, who brought this inequity to the council’s attention, tried to run for president of HRCF, the outgoing officers—who choose their successors—would never select him, a leader it considers unfaithful to the group’s purpose...
...students are welcome to exercise their freedom of association, as HRCF claims, but if they choose to discriminate they are not entitled to recognition as an official student group. HRCF would not be subjected to anti-religious discrimination any more than final clubs are being subjected to anti-male discrimination...