Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the all-male final clubs, however, the Athena Society has signed a non-discrimination agreement which leaves it open to both male and female membership...
...RECENT DECISION by Harvard's nine exclusive, all-male final clubs to continue their practice of excluding women from membership was not entirely surprising. But the request by the presidents of the clubs for more time to discuss the issue seems pointless. The clubs' presidents and members of their graduate boards have met extensively with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who has tried to persuade them to change their policy for a number of reasons. They are clearly not ready to do so, and this issue should no longer preoccupy any member of the Harvard administration...
...unfounded. The clubs maintain an interclub agreement, under which they pledge to treat each other civilly, and which stipulates disciplinary measures for breaking club or College etiquette. Presumably, if the College extricates itself from their affairs, the clubs may choose not to renew the agreement. But the entire undergraduate membership of the clubs consists of Harvard students, and as such they remain answerable to the College...
...Stroot, who is on the membership committee, volunteered that Henry's Hideaway had had to evict only one drunk in the six months it has been open. "He's probably here. I'll point him out. Well, I guess he isn't. He's usually hanging all over that gal there in the back...
...country. The South African government seized his passport in 1981, and he now needs special permission for his numerous speaking trips outside the country. The government, which is elected by the country's 18% white minority, also conducted an investigation into the liberal South African Council of Churches (membership: 13 million), which Tutu has headed since 1978. That inquiry resulted in a verbal public denunciation that charged the feisty preacher and the council with waging "massive psychological warfare" against the government and sympathizing with outlawed liberation groups such as the Zambia-based African National Congress (A.N.C...