Word: pranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Officials of Women Appealing for Change (WAC), a group challenging the final clubs' exclusion of female members, are refusing to retract allegations that the Delphic Club was responsible for a prank played on their organization...
Black would not comment, but players said sucha prank was unusual...
Officers of the Delphic Club strongly denied this weekend that any of their members were involved in a prank played last week on the cochairs of Women Appealing for Change...
...later that night that I was informed that the whole interview and photograph had been a prank performed by two Final Club members as part of their club initiation. For those of you who are unaware, Women Appealing for Change is currently sponsoring a boycott of the nine all-male Final Clubs in an appeal that they go co-ed. As part of our goal, we have done our best to avoid antagonistic relations, and worked hard to create a friendly atmosphere and inspire healthy dialogue between Final Club members and the rest of the Harvard community. Our movement...
...understand the nature of a collegiate prank, and perhaps assembling the co-chairs for a photograph could be found amusing to some. But to feign serious interest in our organization, to conduct both a phone interview with me and to meet with me again in person, and to elicit from me my heartfelt opinions on an issue to which I have devoted much of my time and energy, all for a joke--this, to me, is emblematic of the very attitudes that certain clubs promote. I have also been informed of another initiation rite involving the same club. This time...