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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reprise for those who've not been following the story: The Final Clubs are to Harvard what fraternities are to other colleges, with the important difference that fewer than 10 percent of undergraduates join. Though each of the nine Clubs owns its premises, in which like-minded males socialize and dine together once or twice a week, none provides student living quarters. Their association with the College began in 1791 with the founding of the Porcellian and their social role has waxed and waned, its importance steadily diminshing since the building of the Houses in the 1930's. The latter...

Author: By E.l. Pattullo, | Title: Final Clubs: A Curious Target for Reformist Zeal | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...that no College group may discriminate on the basis of sex, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation or physical disability," quickly adding that it occasionally grants some exemptions. (I think at once of the physical disability--weight 112 pounds--that excluded me from the football team I yearned to join in my youth...

Author: By E.l. Pattullo, | Title: Final Clubs: A Curious Target for Reformist Zeal | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...fight terrorism by invoking strong economic sanctions against a principal actor in the terrorist scene--Libya and its leader, Moammar Khadafy. By contrast, our European allies appear to have learned nothing from such terrible events as the holiday airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. By their continued refusal to join the United States in concerted sanctions, European governments have doomed their own citizens and untold others to an increase in terrorist violence and a possible upsetting of the balance of power in the Arab world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn The Screws | 1/15/1986 | See Source »

Dershowitz said he did not join any other protesting group because he disagrees with the goals of the JDL and many other mainstream Jewish organizations...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Law Professor Holds Maverick Picket At Soviet Hockey Game | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...part of an alumni drive for divestiture, three candidates for positions on the University's Board of Overseers will join Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu on stage Friday night at the Institute of Politics...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Protesters, Tutu to Share Stage | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

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