Final Clubs
Fox Club Planned How To Accept Women for Months, Report Suggests
Those recommendations, detailed in an undated report from a group dubbed the “The Fox Club Task Force On Gender Inclusivity” and recently obtained by The Crimson, suggest that Fox undergraduates spent months planning its move to go co-ed.
Graduate Board Shuts Down Fox Club
The graduate board of the Fox Club, one of Harvard’s historically male final clubs, shut down the organization’s house just weeks after undergraduate leaders added women to their membership and a day after a party there prompted controversy among alumni.
The Back of the UC Ballot
If they garner enough support, questions that ask students to vote on measures that are far from actionable—even joke questions—can make it to the voting box.
UC Candidates Debate Free Speech and Final Clubs at IOP
Tickets running for the Undergraduate Council voiced their opinions of race relations and social spaces on campus.
Letter from Walter Foulke to A.D. Club
In a letter dated Oct. 31, A.D. Club graduate member Walter L. Foulke '61 advised other club affiliates on how the group might legally defend its male-only membership policies were Harvard to attempt to coerce it into admitting women. Foulke, a retired attorney, told The Crimson that a footnote, cut off in the letter sent to club affiliates, should read: “In Griswold, Justice Douglas writes, ‘The right of “association,” like the right of belief, is more than the right to attend a meeting; it includes the right to express one’s attitudes or philosophies by membership in a group or by affiliation with it or by other lawful means… and while [Association] is not expressly included in the First Amendment its existence is necessary in making the express guarantee fully meaningful.’”
A.D. Club ‘Strongly’ Opposes Membership Changes
In an email to club graduate officers, undergraduate president Coby C. Buck ’16 wrote that 31 of 36 undergraduates members in good standing with the A.D. oppose any changes in the club’s membership policy.
At Debate, UC Hopefuls Support Recognizing Single-Sex Groups
When asked how they would have voted on a proposed ballot referendum that called on administrators to restrict student membership in final clubs, all candidates said they oppose such a move.
Sexual Assault Policy Referendum Earns Signatures for UC Ballot
While a proposed referendum calling for greater student input in Harvard’s sexual assault policy task force meetings has gathered the signatures necessary to make the ballot, two others have not.
Spee Club Elects First Class of Men and Women
After inviting women to participate in its punch process earlier this semester, the Spee, a formerly all-male final club, has accepted some women as members and officially gone co-ed.
Students Host Closed Forum on ‘Changing Social Scene’
The forum, entitled “The Changing Social Scene at Harvard,” follows an increase in attention to social life on campus and the role of administrators in offering up open social spaces to undergraduates.
Halloween Weekend Attracts Police Attention
During what was commonly referred to as “Halloweekend” by students, police officers were dispatched to four of Harvard’s eight historically male final clubs.
UC Referendum Asks To Turn Pusey Library Into Social Space
Undergraduate Council pushed a referendum asking students if the Pusey Library should “be transformed into a freshmen-oriented social space” to the upcoming election ballot.
UC Leaders Talk Social Space and Sexual Assault With Faust
In their last meeting with University President Drew G. Faust, Undergraduate Council leaders on Tuesday discussed campus social spaces and the results of the recent sexual assault survey.
Letter from Fox Club Leaders to Graduates
The Fox Club’s thinking, detailed by its undergraduate leaders in a letter to club graduates courting their support for their decision to accept women, seems to have evolved over at least the last year but accelerated this fall.
‘Harvard Has Forced Our Hand,’ Fox Club Letter Says
The Fox’s thinking, detailed by its undergraduate leaders in a letter to club graduates courting their support, seems to have evolved over at least the last year but accelerated this fall.
Fox Club Accepts Group of Women to Its Membership
The Fox Club has accepted a group of junior and senior women into its membership, making it the second male final club this fall to move to go co-ed.
Petition Calls for Administrators To Control Final Clubs
Undergraduates are proposing an Undergraduate Council election referendum that would call on Harvard to “reclaim administrative control over final clubs,” though it is unclear whether administrators could legally take such a move.
Faust Gives College Money To Fund Student Social Events
University President Drew Faust freed up the money in response to students and administrators who have asked to bolster on-campus social spaces.
Admissions Office Fields Questions on Final Clubs
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said the all-male social organizations are “not consistent with the mission of the College."
New Spaces Look To Push Parties Back to the Houses
On a campus where extracurriculars are social currency and “social space” is a new buzzword, administrators are working to move the center of social life back to the Houses.
From 'Cliffe to Crimson
She is the daughter of a shoemaker and so knows enough to wear a sturdy pair of loafers for the long trek from Brockton to Cambridge, Mass. She knows, too, that her request to study intensive Latin, Greek, and English at Harvard may be rejected. But it is 1878, and Abby Leach knows, above all, that she and other women now deserve to know more.
A University-Wide Survey, With a College Focus
Harvard's sexual conduct climate survey results released Monday prompts further concern toward the College's handling of sexual assault cases.
Khurana Meets With Final Club Graduate Board Leaders
The meeting is just one in a line of many conversations that College administrators have had with representatives from Harvard’s elite unrecognized social groups in the past year.
Donning Dresses and Suits, Sophomores Court the Spee
Undergraduate men and women slipped into formal attire to take part in the Spee Club's competitive social selection process on Thursday.