Posted on 05/07/2016 6:00:22 AM PDT by pabianice
Harvard University moved decisively Friday to turn up the pressure on exclusive, all-male social clubs, barring members from leading campus organizations and sports teams.
The new policy, which will take effect for the freshman class in 2017, will also prohibit members of the 14 so-called final clubs, as well as nine fraternities and sororities, from receiving recommendations for prestigious scholarships from undergraduate dean Rakesh Khurana.
The restrictions were announced amid a mounting standoff between the elite clubs and college administrators, who say the organizations foster a culture that leads to sexual assault. The administrators say the clubs are antithetical to Harvards commitment to promoting inclusion and diversity.
[The clubs] encourage a form of self-segregation that undermines the promise offered by Harvards diverse student body, Harvard president Drew Faust wrote in a letter released Friday to Harvard students and faculty.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Aren’t the members of those clubs also the ones who make the largest donations to the university...?
but, but what if they’re homosexual social clubs?
“Harvard male students and alumni are pussies!”
I don’t hire from the Ivy League.
Co-ed dorms?
“Khurana and other administrators have cited statistics from a survey of students last year that they say indicate that after dormitories, final clubs are the most frequent location of sexual assault.”
The real punishment would be to make them accept the kind of women who would want to infiltrate an all-male club.
college administrators, who say the organizations foster a culture that leads to sexual assault. “
These clubs should FURIOUSLY, SAVAGELY attack the speakers of this calumny. Really, allowing any one to advance such a damnable lie against oneself isn’t even remotely civilized.
Not only is it not civilized, it's the ultimate in pussy whipped cowardice. However, men have been allowing this slander against themselves and their sons for the past 40+ years.
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