Harvard banned single-gender clubs

['taterblast]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/12/03/harvard-social-club-policy-discriminates-against-women-lawsuits-say/j28WvC2AMEN0wC0TAecKkM/story.html

give me your takes.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I think it's a pretty good way to get rid of fraternities and sororities. I can't imagine why any school would prefer to have to have them, so the policy makes sense to me.

[wetwillie]

Harvard undergraduate could join the American Nazi party, or could create an off-campus undergraduate chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, without running afoul of the sanctions policy, or any other Harvard student-conduct policy,” the federal suit says. “Those groups may be heinous but they are co-ed, so under Harvard’s rules, its students may belong without any threat of sanction.”

Not going to get much hotter than that

[Rage Against the McKee]

I would be kind of surprised if Harvard doesn't have some sort of policy about groups that discriminate based upon race, too.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Basically a jim crow law for the greek system and an enormous eff you to 1st Am freedom of association. Sounds like harvard to me.

[catastrophe]

Probably a good way to encourage the creation of super cool secret societies.

[Dugout DickStone]

Rip Fly, Phoenix and Owl.  I had a good time

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Why the eff does any administrator at Harvard care what their students do with their free time

The new Harvard policy says that students who join single-gender off-campus clubs are not eligible to hold leadership positions in on-campus clubs or sports teams, and are not eligible for recommendations for several prestigious scholarships, including the Rhodes.

This is beyond bizarre and completely inappropriate.

[catastrophe]

The most powerful social circles at places like Harvard and Yale tend to carry a lot of influence in the real world.  For the longest time, those circles have been exclusively male.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Apparently not