Princeton eating clubs?

f.scottie
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:36:05 +0000

from the same article, it sounds like the harvard administration has taken concrete steps to reduce the role played by the final clubs:

“Harvard has marginalized the men’s finals clubs… In 1986 the university ended its ties with single-sex clubs, going so far as to cut off heat to the finals clubs buildings from the university’s steam system, and decreed that except for sports teams and choral groups, no same-sex groups could meet or advertise on campus.”

the clubs’ continued discrimination could be ILLEGAL:

“But at Harvard, where in the 1980’s the independently run finals clubs chose to sever ties with the university rather than go coed, women had to start their own groups. (In 1990 a female student lodged a complaint against the Fly with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, which ruled that it had no jurisdiction.)”

“Members of male clubs tend to be quietly supportive of the women’s groups, if not always for altruistic reasons. 'The general attitude towards them is positive, because the males know that if this issue is raised it could result in their being forced to accept women,” said one upperclassman, who asked not to be identified for fear of dragging his club into the debate.'"