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Harvard’s final clubs: the Fox, Spee, Delphic, A.D., Fly, Owl, Phoenix and Porcellian, are privately owned mansions that house exclusively male organizations. They are places where men come together to develop a sense of brotherhood, make connections and have social gatherings—reinforcing the old boy network central to Harvard’s history of patriarchy, racism, heterosexism and economic elitism...
Although they have played at the Quincy Collective, outside the Leverett Coffeehouse, and one impromptu spectacle at The Spee, they can more often be found around Boston, including at Brother Jimmy’s sometime next week and the All Asia Club...
Skull and Bones this was not. A veritable United Nations of punches, including representatives from every major race, descended upon CoSo to nosh and network with Spee members, fellow punches and their dates (who put the lie to claims of gender inequity...
...guest list was no Harvard who’s who—this wasn’t the Porcellian, after all—but failed UC presidential candidate and Spee member Aaron Byrd ’05 was in attendance, along with pseudo-meta-movie star David Ingber ’07 of MTV’s The Real Cancun...
Also lurking among the crowd was kitchenware magnate Chip Fisher ’78, a Spee alum known to hang around the club’s Mount Auburn St. domain for late nights with the boys. Fisher, the man behind Mr. Chips ice cream parlor and an upscale Manhattan catering house, encouraged punches to drink up and generally unnerved those in attendance. But the only thing sketchier than Fisher’s appearance last Friday is his profile on thefacebook.com, which includes shout-outs to the Spee, foxhunting and the Mashomack Polo Club. “Chip last logged...