Word: punched
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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...
...women to gain the full benefits of final club membership, the clubs must open the punch process voluntarily, recognizing their own benefit in doing so. For now, however, the specter of sexism still precludes me from stripping to a bathing suit and parading across the Widener steps in the November cold. With due apologies to all those who have been spending the week risking hypothermia, not to mention their dignity, I can't say I feel particularly deprived...
Connolly noted that punch-card machines, which are used in some polling precincts, have had physically separate paper summaries for state referenda since...