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...institutions have higher student activity fees. But Harvard is decentralized in a unique way in that everyone is so busy doing something that no one has time to worry about anyone else’s activities, including the UC’s. We boast 41 intercollegiate athletic teams, whose membership comprises nearly one-quarter of the student body. Yet few attend football games. More student-run publications are produced here than in some Mountain Time Zone states. Yet, except for The Crimson, none are read. The UC must realize that to most students, it not really a representative institution...
...about 2,000 have been implanted. Applied CEO Scott Silverman hopes to sell chips to the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI--feeding into X-Files-type fears of biochipped government agents lording over the citizenry. A novel use: Baja Beach Club, a European nightclub chain, is offering "VipChip membership" to speed patrons through the ropes in Barcelona and Rotterdam. Some 430 clubgoers have signed on--at $1,300 apiece...
...objections don’t begin to tackle the bigger issues final clubs raise in terms of the social scene at Harvard. Yes, “social meritocracy” is a somewhat dubious description of punch, which is often arbitrary and, yes, introduces an odd incentive structure with membership as the reward for sociability, wit, and audacity. And yes, there is a clear power structure at work, with male members controlling a guest space populated by male and female guests hand-picked at the door. None of these facts are particularly pretty. Some of them seem...
...same would be excluded. Bee girls might merge with Fly guys, and the Isis could legitimate its bonds with the Delphic. But the change would be nominal. I still wouldn’t fit in—so, selfishly, I’ve never been passionate about extending membership. It is more the blatant and embraced elitism that makes me wince. It is the 50-year-old stewards who serve these 20-year-old products of privilege; the boundaries of excess that become ever-widened; the women and non-members who grovel at clubs’ doors, reliant upon members...
...beginning of junior year, after a semester of more or less uneventful membership, I quit the Spee. Nothing scandalous happened that made me do it; there weren’t any secret rituals gone horribly wrong, and there wasn’t one shocking event that marked my departure. I left despite generally having a good time there. I was told when I was punching that that’s what the club was really about, a bunch of pretty chill dudes just hanging out. And it was, in a way. The dudes were chill and did hang...