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...Name of Seneca Club Inappropriate...
...article (News, May 10) reviewing the emergence of the Seneca--a new all-female undergraduate social organization--explores an alternative to filling the gap of a female network. Promising to provide and develop such a support for Harvard females, the Seneca reportedly exists to aid the entire female population, and it is pointed out that the name "signifies women's advancement." The Seneca seems to be a noble idea with positive intentions. However, the resolutions from the Seneca Falls Convention called for equal participation of, and an enlarged sphere of opportunities for women, but did not aim to achieve this...
...women in the Seneca club have made obtaining property for a club building a top priority, beginning a flurry of fundraising to cover the incredible costs (estimated at between $1.5 and 2 million). The current members are already anticipating that "alumnae will provide financial security...
Parties that the club hosts are currently being touted as "open to everybody," but the feasibility of such a goal seems tenuous. It would seem that any purely social organization that requires an application process, as the Seneca says will, will inevitably result in exclusion, however "open" the process might initially be. And while last week's "get-to-know-us" barbeque in the Lowell House courtyard was a nice public introduction of the organization, the influx of members from two other female social clubs, the Delta Gamma sorority and the Bee, a female final club, does nothing to reassure...
...ostensible goals of the club are good ones, but its nebulous membership policy is troubling. Without the benefit of College endorsement (and no single-sex social organization will or should be recognized by the College), the Seneca looks too much like a final club. And what Harvard women--and, for that matter, all undergraduates--need is for social life at the College to become less and not more fractionalized...