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...features of the American legal system is the presumption of innocence until proof of guilt. Suspicionless searches or drug testing of students are in no way compatible with that principle. Moreover, government officials—including public school principals—may not search citizens without reasonable justification, and membership in such groups as the math team or the marching band does not in itself justify an intrusive search...
This, I think, is why those institutions of the shimmering statusphere, final clubs and women’s social clubs, seem to gall us—besides the fact that they’re so secretive and self-indulgent. They are social niches unfairly come by. Their membership is not based on the normal social system of elective affinities but by virtue of having been chosen by its predecessors (this is the kind of circular logic that Yogi Berra would’ve loved—“It’s not a social nice until...
...features of the American legal system is the presumption of innocence until proof of guilt. Suspicionless searches or drug testing of students are in no way compatible with that principle. Moreover, government officials—including public school principals—may not search citizens without reasonable justification, and membership in such groups as the math team or the marching band does not in itself justify an intrusive search...
...their male-only membership policy, final clubs are not officially recognized by Harvard as student organizations. But they fulfill a classic campus role, that of fraternities. So, while they provide social outlets for a sizable portion of the student body, many freshmen—and other students—are unaware of the circumstances under which they operate. Although it is unfair to label final club members as the sexual predators of the Harvard campus, the issue of rape and sexual assault cannot be fully explored without talking about these institutions...
...Assistant to the GM and two engineers. “We oversee the operation of the station in terms of bills and paperwork. But the actual day-to-day operation of the station is by students,” says Murphy. This work also includes keeping track of WERS membership because, as a non-commercial station, WERS gets its funding from member donations in addition to the college...