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...members noted there are no rules that prohibit student groups with a purely social focus...
...mail before it was sent,” he said. “I wanted to let people know about the election, if they were Democrats. Additionally, Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy does state that a recognized club such as the Harvard College Democrats must not prohibit anyone from joining...
...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...