Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...somewhere between a club and a team, and is in a continuous battle to find intercollegiate competition." It seems that few are up to the challenge, though, and the Society's games remain confined to intra-Harvard play. Pacheco says the club welcomes newcomers and is basically just a social game that's not very strenuous. The club organizes one tournament per year and insists on using only the finest imported English winks and pots. As an aside, tiddlywink novices particularly adept at the popular yet pedestrian drinking-game "Quarters" should strongly consider hustling their way into the patrician club...
Echoing Saxe's concerns, Sears said the restrictions will force the College to review the lack of social outlets for students...
...Radcliffe. A number of women and men-students and scholars alike-have created a community which is looking for innovative ways to advance women and society as a whole. The undergraduate program Education for Action is a good example. It awards grants to undergraduates to study and address a social problem which may exist in a local or international community...
...Public Policy Institute has also been making national news (though sadly, not in The Crimson) as it has been bringing together the CEOs of major corporations, social policy makers, Republicans and Democrats, men and women to find profitable ways to accommodate changing work-family concerns. These forums have resulted in policy recommendations and implementations of new solutions such as child-care and elder-care leave opportunities for both men and women...
Aspects of final club culture are indeed contrary to the values of this College, and that is why the Staff's logic is flawed. Closing the clubs to non-members will not reduce sexism or social elitism. Because this trend is unlikely to precipitate the demise of the clubs, supporting it is akin to sticking one's head in the sand. Just as Harvard has reformed itself from an elitist, exclusively Protestant institution, the clubs must reform. Their physical plants represent enormous resources, and increased restriction only allows a small group of students to continue to hoard them. A true...