Final Clubs
In the Face of Sanctions, Fly Retains Legal Counsel
The legal team, with Cambridge attorney Harvey A. Silverglate the most prominent among them, has a long history of advising Harvard undergraduates who face disciplinary action from the College.
With Stumbles, Final Clubs Prep For Unique ‘Punch’ Season
The A.D.’s apparent gaff underscores—albeit humorously—many of the questions surrounding final clubs and gender in one of the last fall recruitment, or “punch,” seasons before a new College policy begins to penalize single-gender clubs.
Sab To Go Gender Neutral Next Fall, Host Open Punch
The currently all-female Sablière society has committed to going gender neutral by next fall, according to graduate board president Ariel Stoddard ’10.
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."