Final Clubs
Harvard's Newest Final Club?
Students in at least six River Houses found this flyer for “The Pigeon” under their doors early Friday morning. The flyer featured inflammatory language regarding minority students, race, and religion, sparking controversy across campus.
Campus Reacts To Inflammatory Flyers
Students in all nine River Houses received sealed invitations under their doors early Friday morning professing to come from “Harvard’s Newest Final Club”—with the inflammatory statements that “Jews need not apply” and “Coloreds OK.”
The Square According to Your Best Friend YELP
With the questionable wisdom of strangers in mind, FM would like to take a moment to highlight a few of Yelp’s rising star(rer)s.
Sablière Initiation Draws Criticism
In what observers surmised was an initiation task for a female final club, two young women wearing the Sablière Society’s signature blue scarves grabbed a newspaper from a vendor of homeless paper Spare Change News and then videotaped themselves on an iPhone trying to sell the paper, according to Harvard Square Homeless Shelter staff members who saw the incident.
Seeing Through the Haze
The pervasive silence raises a number of troubling questions about the rites of passage taking place behind closed doors—and what power administrators have to preserve student safety if they cannot collect honest accounts of the rituals.
Individual Apprehended Outside Fly Club After Altercation
The Harvard University Police Department apprehended an individual outside the Fly Club early Thursday morning after three individuals, one of whom allegedly had a knife, reacted violently to a request that they leave the club.
The Delphic Renamed "The Dolphin"
Would the Delphic benefit from a rebranding effort? Somebody seems to think so.
Letter Targets Final Club Punches
Last Monday a number of undergraduates received a different type of letter under their door asking students “to consider not punching a final club this fall.”
Off Campus, Harvard Goes Greek
Despite Harvard’s unusual situation—in which the administration refuses to recognize what it terms a “discriminatory” culture—Harvard is part of a national trend of expanding Greek life on college campuses.
Far East Movement Parties at The Owl
Last Sunday, Far East Movement headlined the sixth annual Yardfest performance, drawing a record audience of students and prefrosh. After the show, the four members of the group stayed for a meet and greet before visiting the Harvard party scene.
UC Backs Social Space Initiative
The Undergraduate Council passed six different pieces of legislation at its general meeting last night, including an act to support Harvard Students for Safe Space.
Assaults Occur Outside Final Clubs on Consecutive Weekends
During the last two consecutive weekends, assaults have occurred outside of final clubs involving physical confrontations between club members and individuals not affiliated with the University.
Students Consider University Recognition for Single-Sex Groups
Students from varied social circles discussed the skewed social dynamic between male and female single-sex groups and the need for some form of University recognition for these groups during an event in Adams Lower Common Room yesterday.
UC Spotlights Final Clubs
Members of a group critical of final clubs sought to spur discussion among UC members about the funding and availability of alternative social spaces.
Founders Abandon Rose Society
The Rose Society Philanthropic Club will not become Harvard’s sixth all-female final club this year.
Flag Stolen From Phoenix, S.K. Club
A member of the Phoenix S.K. Club—one of Harvard’s eight male final clubs—reported the club’s flag stolen last week, an act which the member who reported the crime speculated may be related to the clubs’ recruitment season, or its recent wave of publicity from being featured in “The Social Network.”
Diversity in Final Clubs
To conclude our series on final clubs, we thought we’d take a quick little tour through the history of the clubs’ diversity. “We pride ourselves on the diversity of our club,” one member of the Phoenix wrote to us in an e-mailed statement. “And we define diversity to include race, socio-economic status, concentration, extra-curriculars, etc.” He added that the Phoenix has “some members from royal families and others whose parents are unemployed.”
What is a Final Club?
As part of our series on Final Clubs, we decided to get out on the street and find out what people around here actually think about the clubs.
Meeting Kicks Off Final Club Initiative
Over 30 undergraduates discussed the role and practices of final clubs at the first publicized meeting of an initiative that opposes the current state of the clubs held on Friday afternoon.
Final Club Real Estate
Though most Harvard students have walked by properties owned by final clubs, many have never been inside their million (and in some cases, multi-million) dollar clubhouses. As part of Flyby’s final club series, we’ve profiled club real estate holdings in Cambridge.