Word: porcellians
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...your opponents with accusations of misogyny, but it is more difficult to actually deny oneself the pleasures of cavorting with said patriarchy's handsome sons. I will never forget the fateful evening when I encountered the leader of one prominent women's organization emerging from the anteroom of the Porcellian. It seems that political dogmatism comes easy, so long as it does not interfere with one's plans for Saturday night...
Other members said that since January, the graduate board has been attempting to mimic the Porcellian club, the one final club that has never allowed women in its clubhouse...
...forgotten is that the advantage of a final club never lay in its ability to make you popular. Today, they have become the Harvard man's passport to a social life. But the societies' principal purpose was to provide its members with good company and a good meal. The Porcellian was founded in 1791 by a group of friends who decided they wanted to eat roast pig together every month...
...problem arose when the clubs decided half-heartedly to transform themselves. They gave up their secrecy and a lot of their bigotry. The Porcellian admitted its first Jewish member in the mid-70's and the Fox had a black president in the early 80's. But they refused to admit women, as did their counterpart Yale society, the Skull and Bones (of which George W. is a member). Currently, they exist as an unholy cross between fraternity and secret society...
...Porcellian president Paul K. Nitze '00 evaded the lottery process for parking. And just because he has a brand new, shiny car. Or, so the story goes...