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...female final club established in the late 1980s, and The Seneca, a non-profit women’s organization formed in 1999, took a different approach, jump-starting capital campaigns with the hope of one day buying houses of their own. Since then, three other women’s social groups have formed—the Isis, Sabliere Society and Pleiades—but none have purchased property, nor have they accumulated the social or business networks boasted by the male clubs...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting Final Clubs Out of the Picture | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

Some final clubs have offered their space to such women clubs. The Seneca, for example, will hold its final dinner welcoming new members at The Fox tomorrow night. “It’s just something we do because it’s the right thing to do,” says a graduate member. “The Fox is dedicated in its small way to helping...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting Final Clubs Out of the Picture | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...Congress, after which two self-satisfied white landowners in paper hats dance around chanting “No girls allowed! No blacks allowed!...It’s a good thing the word racist hasn’t been invented yet!” Next come Jim Crowe laws, the Seneca Falls Convention and finally the Vietnam war protests that eventually resulted in lowering the voting age to match the age for draft eligibility with the 26th Amendment...

Author: By Emer C.M. Vaughn, ON THEATER | Title: Theater Review: Politics Drive a Whimsical ‘Odyssey’ | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...advancing women’s social equality on campus, write for Perspective or join the Radcliffe Union of Students. If you’re a little interested in women’s social equality and a lot interested in playing beer pong with final club dudes, join The Seneca...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: From the FM archives... | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...many people mystified by the contradictions in Jefferson's life? Seneca was a corrupt statesman who wrote works glorifying morality. When asked how he could reconcile such contradictory views, he answered that he was certainly better than someone who was corrupt and wrote books glorifying immorality. Jefferson was not corrupt, but he preached the sublimity of liberty and yet was a slave owner. Jefferson could have given an answer similar to Seneca's. ANGELO A. DE GENNARO San Antonio, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 2004 | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

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