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...beginning of junior year, after a semester of more or less uneventful membership, I quit the Spee. Nothing scandalous happened that made me do it; there weren??t any secret rituals gone horribly wrong, and there wasn’t one shocking event that marked my departure. I left despite generally having a good time there. I was told when I was punching that that’s what the club was really about, a bunch of pretty chill dudes just hanging out. And it was, in a way. The dudes were chill and did hang...
...fall of my sophomore year, as my male friends were being punched by the clubs, I was still standing on doorsteps, waiting to be let in. I started to get tired of laughing at jokes that weren??t that funny and batting my eyelashes at the guy standing at the door. I would sit next to club members in section during the week and then have to perpetually be their “guests” at parties on the weekend. I ended my sophomore year still trying to wrap my mind around what exactly made...
That didn’t seem likely. It is never easy to give up power, and as the months went by, it became increasingly clear that those who had it weren??t looking to change. Over and over again, conversations came to an impasse. Members refused to frame the discussion in terms of gender inequities, and I refused to view the clubs as just a place to hang out with buddies...
Heart-racing moments of potential exposure and consequent ruin weren??t rare, and from time to time the members of the club questioned its clandestine status. After a debate at a 1911 reunion meeting, the members decided to re-confirm their privacy through a unanimous—and successful—vote...
...every student who came and I think that the students who did attend left with a better understanding of the Quad Library,” said Beth S. Brainard, director of communications for Harvard College Library. “There were also a lot of students there who weren??t attending the party but were studying, and we think that that was wonderful, too.” The once four-floor library has been reduced to one floor, with the other three floors to be used for student space. The Quad Library now features a room for stacks...