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...Senate Armed Services Committee -- were confronted by one of the newest: seven women Senators. And for a moment the militarists were forced to regroup. Kelso's supporters had to launch a sudden offensive to squeeze out a 54-43 victory. By saying, "Not so fast," and impeding the old-boy network, the women, and the 36 men who joined them, rallied around that rarely observed principle: accountability. Still, they lost...
From his opening remarks, Gabay tried to dispel his "old-boy network" stigma, including a charge later in the debate by Garza that Gabay had threatened to resign if Beys were impeached following what Garza called a "check writing scandal...
Rather than question whether admitting women to final clubs would actually correct chauvinistic excesses, the staff engages in a silly harangue against "classism" and the "old-boy network." On these very issues, the staff is hardly innocent. Crimson compers surely anticipate the "well-placed connections" that semesters' worth of duty provide. In fact, dozens of students each year complete the comp process, never to return to 14 Plympton, remembering their position only around resume time. And if there is any clique at Harvard known for not dealing with "people unlike themselves," it is the staff...
...places on this campus better represent the patrician ideals of Old Harvard than the final clubs. While most of us would like to dispel the image of Harvard as a stratified old-boy network, these stalwarts work to keep that image a reality...
...clubs are more diverse than the staff portrays them, even if they do represent an "old-boy network," and we fail to see how the clubs are oppressive to students other than women. At least some of the women who want the clubs to change disagree with the clubs' policies and would like to be members for reasons other than discriminating against working-class, poor students. The staff does not have to like the "elitism" that it thinks the clubs represent, but that elitism is not a reason to call for the banishment of the clubs in the same...