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Having mastered the art of the obligatory public service appearance, you will join the ranks of fresh-faced politicos, organizing pizza dinners and panels at the Arco. If you are male, your sophomore year you will join the Porcellian, learn which way the folds on a cummerbund go and make great connections. If you are female, you will join the Undergraduate Council...
Thinking about the Bee, I'm not sure whether to picture a horde of radical feminists sitting in a dark room plotting the downfall of the Porcellian or a clique of beauties in tight skirts gossiping about the hulking-but-shy football players of the A.D. And having gone the first five semesters of my undergraduate career without hearing of the female Club, it's hard to know if it's self-consciously secretive or just tiny and irrelevant...
...Colbert H. Cannon '97, a member of the Porcellian, said he is not sure he wants to see Greek organizations recognized by the University. He said he feels those clubs dominate campus social life in a way final clubs do not, citing the fact that Greek members live in their fraternity and sorority houses
...offers a diverse array of opportunities for people of talent to associate, and the final clubs hardly stand as gatekeepers to future social or economic achievement. We've come a long way from the time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 identified his greatest failure as getting blackballed from the Porcellian Club. Future success is a product more of skill, dedication, and luck, than connections with wealthy club alumni. And at least that way you don't have to wear drag...
...club controls access to the book suggests that it is less interested in promoting historical study than in using the University's archives as an annex to the Porcellian's private library...