Posted on 05/06/2016 5:18:56 PM PDT by KingofZion
Beginning with the freshman class that enters in fall 2017, Harvard University students will no longer be allowed to hold leadership positions in campus groups while also maintaining membership in the exclusive, single-gender final clubs that dominate the school’s social scene.
The new rule, announced Friday morning by President Drew Gilpin Faust and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana, comes as the school grapples with how to stem sexual assaults and foster an inclusive environment, all while acknowledging the limits of its control over groups that it doesn’t fund or govern directly.
The policy barring students from holding leadership positions in official groups while being members of what the school calls “unrecognized, single-gender social organizations,” also extends to the younger fraternities and sororities. Students will also not receive the dean’s endorsements for elite scholarships and fellowships if they’re found to be members of the groups The final clubs—so-called because they were historically the last of the social clubs a student would join as undergraduates—are a cross between Yale University’s secret societies, Princeton University’s eating clubs and fraternities and sororities.
Today, there are six all-male clubs, five younger all-female clubs, and two that used to be restricted to men but opened their doors to women last fall.
“Campus culture has not changed as rapidly as student demography,” Ms. Faust said in an email to the college community Friday announcing her acceptance of Mr. Khurana’s recommendations.
She said that barring students from participation in the groups because of their gender “encourages a form of self-segregation that undermines the promise offered by Harvard’s diverse student body” and doesn’t prepare students for life after graduation, where gender-based discrimination “is understood as unwise, unenlightened, and untenable.”
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Only feral-government approved clubs are allowed.
I’m picturing a long-standing Harvard club of all men, with the guys drawing straws, and the guy with the short straw — we can call him Wayne — gets to “self-identify” as a woman on his membership card.
Problem solved.
Are these safe spaces?
How about all black clubs and fraternities?
All hispanic?
All female?
Or this a one way road?
Segregation of the sexes has been done precisely because it provides a chance for students to have fun, while lessening the opportunity for ‘hanky-panky’. Now, the colleges are going to forces all clubs to include all genders? Good luck with that. ‘I’m shocked, SHOCKED that there’s ‘unscheduled social intercourse’ transpiring in this fraternity!!!”
I love it. And if they came after them, they could respond that the administration wasn’t respecting Wayne’s new identity..
Doesn’t this violate Title IX? Students need safe zones with members of their own gender. Hopefully the Obama administration will pull Harvard’s funding.
how sick can a college get?
Good. These Harvard A-hole graduates immediately inflict this upon the nation. They need to experience the same thing. Ruin things that they find enjoyable or important just like they do with us.
Boy Scouts, Augusta, the Marines, etc...
My kids went to Temple-bunch of young people rode together and shared costs..Came home and slept in their own beds .Got good jobs-end of story.
the guy with the short straw
= = =
Why not the guy with the Long straw????
Denying scholarships and grants?
Can you say lawsuit?
The absolutely stupidest, most useless people on the planet are running Harvard. The second most useless group are its students.
Because the Politically Correct Crowd doesn’t perform any useful economic performance to our GNP, they consume otherwise productive time by espousing more useless censorship of free speech....
Oh stop it, you
Of course it’s one-way
The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English an American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US.
-PJ
Well, they did it to the US Naval Academy Glee Club when they started admitting women to Annapolis ....
The task: “foster an inclusive environment.”
Harvard’s solution: exclude people.
So all islamic males are now banned from leadership?
Well well.
/s
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