Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard sophomore stayed neck-and-neck with his Hawkeye opponent. Each competitor held serve for the first 11 games of the fierce final frame. Then Zimmerman took charge...
...compelling reason to integrate the final clubs would exist if their discrimination excluded women from an equal opportunity to succeed in America. Our government does not, and should not, tolerate discrimination by federal agencies, public schools or even private firms. To do so would deny citizens the guarantee of a level playing field that justifies the unequal outcomes that may arise from free competition...
...sure, final club alumni have access to a large network of graduate members. (Schkolnick does not claim that undergraduates use the Fly Club for business purposes.) But so do graduates who played on certain athletic teams in college, performed in certain theatrical clubs, wrote for certain daily newspapers, or attended certain Ivy League institutions in the first place...
Although I have never attended a final club party (read: I'm taking the moral high ground), I understand that it is men who get excluded from these events. Apparently, final clubs like women quite a lot in their social role...
...certainly appalled by this blatant discrimination against my gender. But I don't plan to file suit to gain entry to final club parties. The way to defeat final clubs' contribution to the old-boy network is not to attend final clubs, or to join final clubs, or to take them to court...