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...November 8: The CCL gives the nine organizations a one-month reprieve, asking them to justify their exemption from the non-discrimination clause. Meanwhile, the nine have reaffirmed their desire to remain affiliated with Harvard in a succinct statement: "The clubs value [their] association with Harvard and wish to remain a part of the community...
When asked for their position, the club presidents, speaking as a group, asked the committee for a one-month extension. That extension expired last week...
Realistically speaking, the most recent one-month "reprieve" from potential College actions, enacted to allow the clubs more time to consider admitting women, is merely symptomatic of a lingering reluctance on the part of male-dominated Harvard hierarchies to sever ties with what is longstanding tradition: the University attitude of "male supremacy". It seems fairly obvious from the results of straw votes within the clubs that they themselves will not elect to admit women, nor necessarily should they. However, as a sophisticated and enlightened institution of higher education, it behooves Harvard to publicly sever ties (centrex phones, access to College...
...College's nine exclusive, all-male final clubs yesterday got a one-month reprieve from potential College sanctions when the student-faculty Committee on College Life(CCL) voted to allow them more time to consider admitting women...
...largest black ethnic bloc, hinted ominously of possible black reprisals against those who voted. Said he: "We feel betrayed because so many of our colored and Indian brothers and sisters are rushing forward with their tongues hanging out to endorse the white rejection of us." Indeed, in the one-month election campaign that preceded the vote, colored political meetings were disrupted, and the homes of several colored candidates were firebombed. South African security forces responded by detaining 152 people the day before the balloting...