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...trouble comes when Harvard decides to block certain groups from official recognition. And the first requirement for recognition in the College’s “Regulations for Undergraduate Organizations?? is a non-discriminatory membership policy...
...seminars, maybe honors-only concentrations, definitely seminars and conference courses. Worse are the extracurriculars: “comping” the Advocate, the Crimson, or the Lampoon; the arduous Let’s Go applications and interviews; some PBHA programs and other committees (even, ironically, Room 13); the social organizations??rejection is the definitive Harvard experience...
...over their peers, that they indulge in needless abuse. Compers of the Lampoon’s literature board—the writers—meet with established ‘Poonsters at “office hours.” The metaphor is telling. The people who make these organizations?? processes such a pain aren’t imitating real businesses; this isn’t how real magazines or newspapers hire staff. They’re mimicking Harvard itself...
...forever? Because my brother couldn’t sleep Tuesday night because of the sound of fighter jets overhead? It is so tempting to be angry. But to let our anger overwhelm us, to let it manifest itself in hate mail and threatening phone calls to innocent people and organizations??that is to let these cowards...
Separately, the council passed a measure of support last night for a pending state bill that would prevent Harvard’s properties in Watertown—and the properties of other nonprofit organizations??from receiving tax-exempt status. The resolution also calls for Healyto investigate ways that Cambridge can retain revenue from property purchased by currently tax-exempt organizations...