Word: newes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Current regulations require senior tutors to notify all students slated to come before the Ad Board of the new alternative...
...Harvard student body is poised to take a giant step backward. The emergence this fall of new social clubs and fraternities will lead toward a more exclusionary, more factional social life...
...issue is not merely whether the new organizations, unlike the final clubs, will have any socially redeeming value. If public service were really the primary aim of these students, they could find plenty of other organizations at Harvard through which to channel their altruistic impulses. The Phillips Brooks House Association is only one of many. No, the essence of fraternities and organizations of their ilk is improving the social lives of their members...
Surely Harvard's social scene could use some rejuvenation. But creating even more exclusive social organizations is not the right way to correct these deficiencies. New clubs will simply further factionalize the student body by providing more ways to gather in small groups, separated from the rest of Harvard students...
...difficult to imagine why people who complain of the closed social life of this campus would want to limit the types of people they could meet in a new club to members of the same sex. Why not try to meet members of both sexes in a more relaxed setting, rather than in the more tense and stilted atmosphere of a club party...