Word: social
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...same case be made against the final clubs on campus? I fail to see a comparison. Aren't all citizens granted the right to free association by the Bill of Rights? Where does it say that, in a purely social atmosphere, students can't form a club with other members of their own choosing? As council member Jonathan Leff '90 put it, when the council debated whether or not to support the case, "Those who support this resolution are in fact sacrificing freedom to impose their own vision on our society...
...private clubs will only be subject to public laws concerning gender discrimination if they have more than 400 members, provide a regular meal service, and accept payments from corporations who pay the employee's membership dues. None of these characteristics apply to final clubs. Final clubs exist solely as social institutions, not as business associations involved in commercial activities. Female students really aren't missing out on that much...
Does this mystical "networking" really exist? Maybe it did fifty years ago, when a good majority of the undergraduates came from exclusive prep schools and already knew most of the people in their class. Then, elitism was pervasive in career and social advancement, from birth to silver spoons to death. I doubt Harvard could be characterized as perpetuating such a discriminatory system today...
...happen. First of all, even if women were allowed by law to be "punched," I highly doubt that any of the clubs would let them in. Instead, the likely result would be the eventual destruction of the clubs, which would deal a fatal blow to the already heavily damaged social life on campus. If Schkolnick is so adamant about the "benefits" women are missing out on, why doesn't she put her efforts towards something constructive, like creating a program to further female students' contacts with one another and with professionals...
Combined concentrations usually require majoring in one of the departments and minoring in the other, and "some students don't want to give primary emphasis to either one," says Professor of Social Relations Philip J. Stone, a Standing Committee member who also advises several special concentrators...