Final Clubs
Committee Set to Consider Motion Against Social Org. Sanctions
The Faculty Council’s newly-elected docket committee is set to consider a motion filed last spring that some professors believe could prevent College sanctions against members of single-gender social organizations from taking effect.
Faust Again Calls for Social Groups To Accept Women
University President Drew G. Faust redoubled her criticisms of Harvard’s all-male final clubs as exclusive, discriminatory, and inconsistent with the values of a liberal arts education, making the case for penalizing members of the social groups in a video for The Atlantic.
Seneca To Go Gender Neutral, But Membership Could Stay All-Women
This fall, the all-female Seneca organization will formally adopt a gender neutral policy in response to administrative sanctions against single-gender social groups—but future memberships could remain all-women in practice without running afoul of the College’s penalties.
Co-Ed Motion Fails In Fox Club Graduate Vote
A Thursday morning vote that would have allowed Fox undergraduates to elect women as members in the club narrowly failed, effectively reversing a move by Fox undergraduates last year to extend membership to future classes of women.
Fox Club Prepares for Historic Thursday Vote
At a Thursday morning special meeting, Fox club graduates will vote whether to “allow undergraduate members to punch and elect female members in the 2016-2017 school year and beyond.”
National BGLTQ Organization Condemns Sanctions on Single-Sex Groups
A national BGLTQ support organization charged Harvard with contriving a shortsighted solution to issues of sexual assault and discrimination as it moves to implement a new policy that will punish members of single-gender, unrecognized social organizations.
A.D. Club Rules Out Merger with Female Clubs
During a summer in which several single-gender social groups have adopted a wait-and-see approach in response to imminent University sanctions, the all-male A.D. Club has ruled out merging with a female club should it adopt gender neutral policies.
Some Clubs to Undergo Policy Shifts in the Fall
After a chaotic year capped by a set of controversial sanctions, leadership of Harvard’s unrecognized single-gender social organizations are carefully weighing next steps as they head into the summer.
Draft Motion
Twelve professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences filed a motion Monday resolving that “Harvard College shall not discriminate against students on the basis of organizations they join."
Coaches Support Social Group Sanctions
In a letter to the editor Sunday, coaches of three prominent teams praised Harvard’s new sanctions against single-gender groups.