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...ritual continues. Despite being stripped of University funding and support, threatened with a boycott by student groups, and slammed in just about every editorial space on campus (including this one), the punch process last week appeared to be right on schedule. Students walking through the Yard saw not only my classmate but many of his brethren, most of whom were involved in activities that made performing a Michael Jackson cover seem downright straitlaced...
...easiest argument is that final clubs should be coeducational because everything at the University should be coeducational. In an ideal world, final club members would recognize that arbitrarily denying membership to half the University population must necessarily lower the quality of their applicant pool. Opening the punch process to women would give them twice as many candidates with superb leadership and fundraising skills, twice as many budding Politicos, and twice as many future presidents of Fortune 500 companies. Thus, the principal beneficiaries of rendering final clubs coeducational would, in fact, be the clubs themselves...
...accurate in theory, but is incredibly naive in reality. Porcelain myth notwithstanding, women being accepted into a final club does not guarantee their financial success. Students must be accepted into the social milieu that final clubs provide. Since many club members do not want to admit women, opening the punch process would have to occur only in grudging response to substantial pressure from the outside...
Connolly noted that punch-card machines, which are used in some polling precincts, have had physically separate paper summaries for state referenda since...
...Will Travel, and candidly envisioned the original Star Trek series as a "Wagon Train to the stars." In his quintessentially '60s view, the final frontier may have been full of hostile Klingons and dangerous Romulans, but they were generally susceptible to a pep talk -- only occasionally augmented by a punch in the nose -- from Captain Kirk. "Everyone always wants me to do space battles," Roddenberry remarked in 1989. "Well, screw them. That's not what Star Trek is about...