Word: final
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...call Jane. They were arguing about whether she had "hairy titties." Each one claimed to be an authority on the matter, and while Rick had seemingly dated her more recently, Marc claimed that he'd hooked up with her since that point, so he should in fact have the final word. The fight was punctuated by other guys' chiming in about how Jane's appearance had so vastly improved since she had broken up with both guys...
...George W. Hicks '99-'00 contends that the club had no choice in the alcohol matter given the atmosphere in the College. "They're making the best of the situation given the general discouragement of alcohol and the general concern over liability," he said, pointing to recent changes in final clubs' guest policies. He praises the Pudding officers for their ability to adapt the club and says the alcohol change has improved the quality of the Pudding experience. "There's less of an emphasis now on alcohol being involved in every aspect," Hicks says. "It's sifted...
...With Students for a Democratic Society and other rabble-rousers getting all the attention, the Pudding as well as the even more exclusive final clubs lost their appeal. The idea of joining other "clubbies" for a meal and a drink simply did not appeal to the radical idealists who populated the campus...
...significant number of Jews gained admission to the club. In another move to expand the membership base, when co-education came around in the early 1970s, women were almost immediately invited to join. "[The introduction of women] made it a lot more fun, and made it easier for the final clubs not to take women," Swistel recalled from his days during the transition. The final clubs kept their traditional role as a bastion of male camaraderie, while the Pudding altered their role to maintain a large following. The broadening spectrum of membership kept the Pudding popular, even during anti-club...
...This is why Harvard cannot serve as his model: without Division I basketball or football, there is no culture of manliness at Harvard. This should not come as news to Harvard women, caught between the devil of final clubs and the deep blue sea of Lamont Library. Elsewhere--think Mississippi--campus society puts its finest specimens of testosterone at the top of the pecking order. They are kings of their respective castles, showered with all the attention that would have been appropriate for a victorious army of yore. This phenomenon has its reasons: manliness, according to Tom Wolfe, developed from...