Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though the clubs have always had a reputation as hangouts for the wealthy and privileged, it appears that concerns about money--the financial liability involved in serving alcohol at open parties--have forced the clubs to make these changes...
After the MIT incident, final club members say, their graduate boards became more wary of open party policies knowing that they could be held responsible--both financially and criminally--if a similar incident were to occur at one of the clubs...
...club's graduate board, after some consultation with undergraduate members, decided the liability involved in remaining open to the public was too high...
Before this change, only the Porcellian club, the oldest of the institutions, had comparable restrictions. The Porcellian does not allow open parties, and non-members are permitted only to enter a small "bicycle room" on the club's ground floor...
Only the vestiges of the pre-closed-door systemremain: clubs that have barred nonmembers willcontinue to hold long-standing annual events thatare open to nonmembers, such as the Owl luau...