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Last year Harvard formally severed a few conspicuous ties to the clubs, including subsidized University steam heat and Centrex phone service. But by keeping silent on the deeper issues of the clubs' existence, Harvard's leadership and student body continue to offer substantive credibility to the clubs' claim to legitimacy. The University did something last year to end its overt support for the clubs; it's now time for students, especially the handful of men faced with today's decision, to attack from the other direction. The Owl Club backyard: Barriers to entry
Then you find a centrex phone and make some frantic calls. You finally find the party. You hurry over to the House only to find five strangers desperately trying to have fun on tomato juice and Perrier. Someone breaks out the computer games. You don't wake...
Since Harry is about to graduate, he had no alternative but to write a letter about his editorial disagreements. But were he a freshman, sophomore, or junior, he could have enjoyed two, more effective options to shake up the Forum. He could have dived for the nearest Centrex, called 498-2101, and immediately become a member of the editorial board for next year. Or he could have jogged to Lamont or Hilles, marveled at the brown plastic submission boxes, and stuffed them full of the most "adventurous" papers he has written...
...University attitude of "male supremacy". It seems fairly obvious from the results of straw votes within the clubs that they themselves will not elect to admit women, nor necessarily should they. However, as a sophisticated and enlightened institution of higher education, it behooves Harvard to publicly sever ties (centrex phones, access to College alumni lists and steam heat) with this last bastion of male elitism. Since most of the clubs have already begun voluntary replacement of phone and heat services, and many of them have close connections with their alumni on the faculty, such a gesture would be chiefly symbolic...
...clubs are not recognized as official student organizations because they do not adhere to a nondiscriminatory admission code, and therefore should not enjoy links--read subsidies--to the College. However insignificant ties like access to centrex phones and steam heat might appear, they are inappropriate given the independent status of the clubs. There is no reason the CCL should not move swiftly to recommend to the College that it sever those links...