Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier this month that the A.D. club would close its doors to undergraduate members in order to clean up the building for its upcoming anniversary serves as a fitting footnote to a year that has seen the gradual retreat of the final clubs from the center of the Harvard social scene. Though the shutdown of the A.D. is being labeled a "temporary" move by current members and alumni, we hope the announcement, along with changes the other clubs have made this year, will lead to a permanent and positive change to the social atmosphere on campus...
...fair, it must be recognized that the group has made a concerted effort to appeal to the student body at large. By all outward appearances, the Seneca is an organization whose sole purpose is to further the social and networking opportunities for all undergraduate women. Named after the famous 1848 women's convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., the club's mission statement states that they wish "to provide members with a network of women that fosters a strong sense of community and support--an outlet to share experiences and enjoy themselves in a non-competitive environment." Members "will comprise...
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...
...whole place together." Despite its built-in near-majority, if the army's party is trounced at the polls it may be persuaded to share power, on its own terms, with the opposition. That's if the election goes ahead: Analysts fear that the campaign could ignite the violent social unrest that has bubbled under the surface since last year -- and if there's one thing the military can't stand, it's civilian chaos...