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Harvard to Bar Members of Single-Gender Clubs From Leadership in Official Groups
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 6, 2016 | Melissa Korn

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; harvardu; highereducation; leftismoncampus; obama; singlesex; university
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To: Chewbarkah

They feel they dont have to tolerate anyone they deem to be intolerant.

The ultimte hypocrital rationalization.


21 posted on 05/06/2016 6:22:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: kaehurowing

The ruling will actually only be applied to white males.


22 posted on 05/06/2016 6:24:48 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: KingofZion

Like the basketball club?


23 posted on 05/06/2016 6:26:39 PM PDT by Defiant (The definition of being a Republican is supporting its nominee. I am not a Republican. Ryan is.)
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To: KingofZion

What is a single gender club?


24 posted on 05/06/2016 6:27:35 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: higgmeister

Oh, like a fraternity or sorority, idiots.


25 posted on 05/06/2016 6:31:44 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: faithhopecharity


26 posted on 05/06/2016 6:38:04 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: KingofZion

Harvard’s barring those from lesbian clubs?

Someone tell Hillary!


27 posted on 05/06/2016 6:38:26 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: KingofZion

Just when you think the Ivy League can’t dive any deeper into the cesspool, they put on a scuba tank ...


28 posted on 05/06/2016 6:44:49 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Iron Munro

right!


29 posted on 05/06/2016 6:46:19 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Secret Agent Man

I doubt this is about tolerance so much as a weapon in their war against white men. Note that they are punishing members of “single-gender” clubs, not single-race clubs, single-religion, color, or other persuasion. Fairness requires hobbling the fastest horses.


30 posted on 05/06/2016 7:32:44 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: KingofZion

Shouldn’t this also apply to the “Greek” organizations? Just to be fair.


31 posted on 05/06/2016 7:36:59 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: KingofZion

Want some real non-diversity?
Including Justice Scalia too..... All the Supreme Court Justices are either Harvard or Yale law school graduates. Three are Yale Law School and Harvard Law the rest.

Every so often a freeper says that when a Harvard or Ivy graduate applies for a job at his company he tosses the application.


32 posted on 05/06/2016 7:40:17 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Just let one hot girl join their club, then they will have someone to make them sandwiches and get their beer.


33 posted on 05/06/2016 7:40:22 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: onedoug

Some guy who identifies as female or is it feminine(?) might want to join...


34 posted on 05/06/2016 7:49:46 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: Chewbarkah

Are womens only groups being affected? I doubt it. Ie the lesbian and gay mens groups?


35 posted on 05/06/2016 7:50:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lee martell

Yep..
My thoughts too


36 posted on 05/06/2016 8:19:21 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: 2banana

Facism on thr March!


37 posted on 05/06/2016 8:29:28 PM PDT by ChiMark (America no more)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Problem solved.”

How about Bluto?


38 posted on 05/06/2016 8:34:05 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: KingofZion

I can just see some rogue Fraternity recruiting a some hookers and calling them Tom, Richard and Harry.


39 posted on 05/06/2016 8:35:56 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: lee martell

So the feminists say girls have a 1/5 chance of being raped at college - but don’t you dare let the girls have their own meeting house where they are safe from the boys.


40 posted on 05/06/2016 9:23:41 PM PDT by tbw2
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