Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal view, the final clubs intoday's world are really outmoded. It will soon bedamaging to someone to put their membership ontheir resume."An aerial view of the Fly Club, one ofHarvard's nine all-male final clubs. The FlyClub--located on Mount Auburn St.--is currentlyunder investigation by the MassachusettsCommission Against Discrimination...
...Bennett "drug czar" and accorded this post Cabinet status, but doesn't even allow Bennett to attend Cabinet meetings. He banned the import of semiautomatic assault weapons, the firearms of choice of drug lords, only to subsequently refuse to ban domestic manufacturing of such weapons. Of course, Bush's membership in the NRA, which somehow seemed less disconcerting to the electorate than Dukakis being a "card-carrying member" of the ACLU, may have a lot to do with these incongruous and contradictory policies...
...clear from these arguments that Harvard should not be so smug in rejecting the notion of greeks on this campus. But another issue that arises from this discussion is that of the final clubs. They are in many respects similar to fraternities and sororities (in selective membership, for example); yet Harvard does not recognize them on campus. Why should greeks be treated differently...
This question fails to understand why final clubs are not recognized here. Because they exclude females from membership, and because Harvard does not agree with that policy, final clubs are non-existent as far as the administration is concerned. But fraternities and sororities are not single-sex organizations for social reasons, as are the final clubs...
Greeks, especially those that are historically Black in membership, were founded on the basis of such community service and leadership. Fraternities and sororities are not self-serving; their purpose is to serve others. Often this purpose is accomplished though scholarships, philanthropic foundations and volunteer work...