Word: prohibition
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...students to “Swat the Fly,” the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) began an effort to introduce women into the membership of Harvard’s storied Fly Club. The Fly is one of a small number of final clubs whose constitution does not prohibit the election of women, and who knows—RUS may succeed in uprooting one of Harvard’s most notorious traditions. Unfortunately, however, it’s not clear how much bringing the final clubs into the modern era (and bringing women into the final clubs) would accomplish...
...above groups could provide good reasons for their exclusive policies. But once explicitly social groups such as the Pudding are countenanced—once their membership criteria are recognized, in practice if not in theory, as acceptable—it becomes very difficult for the College to prohibit discrimination based on any reason at all. Harvard can certainly take a stand against unreasoned restrictions that denigrate others’ personal worth, or against discrimination based on a flawed stereotype (such as if the math club excluded women because “gi rls can’t do math?...
...Club’s constitution doesn’t officially prohibit women, and Truszkowska said that it’s time to consider the idea...
...Garage are taking full advantage of their newfound freedom; they promise to pierce “everything that’s allowed by law.” Although the technician on duty was reluctant to elaborate, FM’s crack investigative staff discovered that the revised statutes prohibit the piercing of genitalia only on persons under 18. So it’s all good...
...Club alum Camimir de Rham Jr. ’46 said that the club’s constitution does not prohibit the election of women...