Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clubs is unmistakeable. Also unmistakeable is the fact that final club members aren't your typical oppressed minority. You can test this by looking at what their reaction would be to the removal of their special status. Final club members would be disappointed if you took away their male-bonding luncheons, fine houses, and beer parties with Wellesley women. Women, however, would be very pleased to have access to the final clubs' resources and connections, to be paid equally for equal work, and to be free from sexual harrassment at the hands of men well-trained in sexism. Women...
...Cooper decide to represent the all-male elite as opposed to the women who are discriminated against by the final clubs? Apparently, Mr. Cooper holds some bizarre ideas about equity in representation and thought he could represent both sides in this struggle. In the council, Cooper voted against the resolution denouncing the clubs. He voted in favor of giving Lisa Schkolnick money for her suit, but introduced an amendment to give equal funding to the Fly Club if they needed...
...University severed its ties with the nine all-male final clubs, which today still stand as reminders of a Harvard that should have passed away long ago. With separate entrances for women, and an elitist atmosphere designed to propagate a traditional social hierarchy, the clubs have no place at this university. At any university for that matter...
Speaking before the council recently, Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz offered a broad critique of the clubs. "Where did they [final club members] learn that it's more comfortable to be with only males, to be with only Christians, to be with only whites?" he asked. "At Harvard. The time has come for Harvard students to say that this wrong." This is not a question of the male members' right to associate, but a question of whether females, Blacks, and others, can be denied this right...
...biases blocking the route to tenure; this is exacerbated by the dearth of available female senior faculty able to review their record. Says Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Alice A. Jardine, "Junior women faculty are not only discriminated against because they're women, but also because senior male faculty don't agree with their work...