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Official stance aside, there is more diversity of goals behind the scenes of WAC. Organizers have tried to formulate a stance that will be both acceptable to a broad spectrum of women on campus and palatable to final club members...
...WAC has tried to mobilized popular support of significant numbers of women on the issue of final clubs. It has emerged as the most popular women's movement on campus boasting a membership of almost...
...partnership with WAC signals a shift in the group's campus role, away from confrontational activism and towards being a supportive umbrella group for other organizations...
Perhaps in an effort to avoid being seen as a fringe, political group, RUS has chosen to downplay its disapproval of the final clubs, leaving leadership in that area to WAC. RUS leaders have made a deliberate effort to tone down some of the group's activities in line with the Radcliffe College administration's less confrontational philosophy. "I think it's possible to be both collaborative and take stands and discuss disagreements openly," says Dean of Radcliffe College Philippa A. Bovet...
...majority of WAC's supporters have signed a letter identifying themselves as "friends of final club members," and WAC organizer Francie B. Walton '94 says the boycott is not a hostile effort to force the clubs to go coed, but is an effort to encourage club members to see that their clubs would be better with women as members...