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This imbalance of control creates a perverse need for women to curry favor with the men who make the lists. "As a girl, you feel all this social anxiety," another female senior says. "You constantly need to manage your relationships with your male friends in clubs to make sure you don’t get left by the wayside." This dependence consistently and systematically puts women into situations they should never have to experience. A female student explains that the need to remain on final club lists "has sustained certain friendships with guys who are constantly hosting me, who otherwise...
...Harvard’s peer institutions, Princeton and Yale, both of which possess old, powerful, exclusive social clubs that integrated about two decades ago. These schools’ students do not seem to spend their time pining for the single-sex days of yesteryear. Geoff C. Shaw, a senior at Yale, says that "cohesive would be one of the first words to come to mind" when describing Yale’s co-ed secret societies. Under gender segregation, he believes the clubs would be compromised. "You’d be missing out on the contributions of half the population...
...Princeton seniors I spoke with articulated similar sentiments. Giovanna Campagna, who is in Princeton’s tony Ivy Club—one of the last to integrate—told me that having co-ed clubs "makes the whole social world more gender-balanced—it’s not like a bunch of guys can rule the scene." She is unequivocal about her preference for gender integration: "I wouldn’t want to be in an all-girls eating club," she says firmly. Lizzie Presser, another senior and a member of the Terrace Club, also found...
...Diana C. Robles ’10, and Mary K.B. Cox ’10, also oversees a special Associates Committee dedicated to soliciting donations of $250 or more; these gifts are then labeled “Associates-level.” With this special committee, the Senior Gift campaign attempts to succeed as both a symbol of class camaraderie and as a fundraising effort...
According to the Harvard College Fund Web site, “Senior Gift is about coming together as a class and giving back to our college.” With its “$10 for 2010” campaign, the Senior Gift Committee is aiming for every graduating senior to donate at least $10, especially after the Class of 2009 broke previous records with a 74.1 percent participation rate. Students can choose to give to financial aid, the Dean’s Fund for Undergraduate Experience, or a pool of unrestricted funds to be used where money is needed...