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It’s spring time in Georgia. While millions of Americans tune in to CBS this weekend to watch the Masters Tournament, one of the premier golfing events in the country, the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) will be standing outside Augusta’s gates, protesting the exclusion of women from the golf club’s membership ranks...
...easy to dismiss the NCWO’s complaint—who cares if a bunch of rich, mostly white guys want to have a club that girls aren’t allowed to join? It is a private organization, after all. The NCWO responds with the argument that by hosting the Masters and selling the broadcast rights to a major TV network, the club is no longer “private” in the sense that it keeps its activities to itself, and instead has the moral imperative to allow women as members. Because Augusta?...
...join. The argument for the continued presence of the final clubs at Harvard and the hands-off stance that the University has towards them is similar to Augusta’s; as private organizations they have no obligation to open themselves to women. But if the claim of the NCWO against Augusta has merit, there is a similar claim to be made against the final clubs...
Levy sent an e-mail to the groups on Feb. 12 informing members that she would be meeting with NCWO leaders and asking for their feedback on the petition. She said she determined that “the general consensus was against demanding resignation...
Although RUS has not discussed whether the Corporation members should resign from Augusta or from Harvard, as NCWO suggests, Watson said she did think the membership “makes Harvard look bad, because they’re not practicing what they preach...