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...ideology the Downtown Plan is sensibly deferential to the existing warp and woof of the city. In ambition, however, it is reminiscent of the Olympian urban-renewal texts of a generation ago, when planners presumed to know how to recast cities from scratch. It puts the city on record against unnecessary shadow and wind and disapproves of mirrored windows (visually off-putting), big street-level airline ticket offices (too boring for pedestrians) and the profusion of newspaper-vending machines (inconvenient for pedestrians). No San Franciscan, the plan continues, should have to walk more than 900 feet to find a sunny...
Even after all these years of controversy, the debate over allowing women to attain final club membership remains lively and contentious. The recent development of the Students Against Super Sexist Institutions-We Oppose Oppressive Final Clubs (SASSI-WOOF) and last Friday night’s packed forum lead by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes on the history of final clubs both attest to the large number of undergraduates who believe that the current all-male Final Club scene is both insulting and out-dated...
...while activist groups such as SASSI-WOOF might help to raise exposure to Harvard’s discriminatory social scene this year, their effort will likely be in vain. Like Stop Withholding Access Today in the 1980s and the Radcliffe Women’s Action Coalition in the 1990s, SASSI-WOOF will likely find that it is really impossible for an outside group to change the system—no matter how vehemently female undergraduates protest...
...house also has a history SASSI-WOOF would love to repeat...
With an open-armed powerhouse like HSF giving shelter to Harvard’s less connected groups, SASSI-WOOF can only hope the trend will spread...