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...directly linked to any events at Harvard’s final clubs. It refused to recognize that final clubs differ greatly amongst themselves and tried instead to straitjacket all of the clubs into the stereotype of abusive, dangerous institutions. For example, the RUS never properly explained how the Porcellian Club could attack women when it refuses to admit non-members (and, by implication, all females) beyond its foyer. Misleading information that seeks to lump the eight different clubs together does not help to establish a mature debate about the role of final clubs at Harvard...
...pamphlet offers a time line of the history of Harvard’s eight final clubs—the AD, Delphic, Fly, Fox, Owl, Phoenix, Porcellian and Spee—with a focus on the history of exclusion of women...
...producing the cash to rent out Locke-Ober for a Theta-Delphic mixer, holding an open-bar birthday bash at T.G.I. Friday’s (paid for, they say, by her good friend Gomes), and helping to co-found Isis, that all-female and quite expensive answer to the Porcellian and the Fly. She made herself intriguing and famous—and in the end, the money had to come from somewhere...
...finds himself inveighing against "voter irregularities" and talking about "disenfranchisement." And down in sunny, senile Florida, a collection of elderly Jews seem to have mistakenly cast their votes for Patrick J. Buchanan--the rough equivalent of Carnegie Hall accidentally renting out their stage for an Eminem concert or the Porcellian Club mistakenly voting Gloria Steinem in as punchmaster...
...Lampoon, of course, encourages such speculation: the editors want very badly for you to wonder what goes on behind their yellow and purple doors. Lampoon editors I have known share three obsessions: Yale secret society Skull and Bones, Harvard's own tight-lipped Porcellian Club, and notoriously secretive author Thomas Pynchon. (The organization claims that Tyrone Slothrop, a fictional Harvard graduate in Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow, was a Lampoon editor.) The Lampoon really, really wants secrecy to be the organization's hallmark. Only invited seniors, enterprising Crimson editors and the select few undergraduates who pass the Lampoon's rigorous comp...