To the editors:
Re: “True Equality,” editorial, Feb. 16.
I agree that it would be a great investment for the university to create social spaces that do not force women to be judged like meat in a butcher’s shop. The editorial erred, however, in suggesting that women’s groups and the university seek the advice of our very own female social geniuses, women’s final clubs and sororities. I need not reiterate the incident of a few months ago, in which it was revealed that the Isis club judges its punches based on their level of “vanilla-ness”. The editorial is asking women’s groups to seek help from groups based upon a social ideology that they are trying to combat: exclusion. As penniless and homeless as the sororities and women’s final clubs are reported to be, they thrive on their exclusivity in selecting female members. Male final clubs thrive on the exclusivity of both sexes: women based on their appearance, and men based on their non-membership in the clubs. Non-Harvardians believe that Harvard is an institution of elitism and exclusivity, and the Crimson editorial did little to prove them wrong.
AMANDA L. SHAPIRO ’08
February 20, 2006
Read more in Opinion
Don't Neglect Grad StudentsRecommended Articles
-
Going After Black FratsH ARVARD'S recently announced investigation of campus Black fraternities and sororities is as Kappa Alpha Psi President Jay Grant '89
-
Third Sorority Will Come to HarvardAfter a grueling rush process that required candidates to study the Harvard social scene and mingle with members of the
-
Students Discuss Final ClubsLast night, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) hosted a passionate discussion on all-male final clubs that touched on a
-
Welcome Home, George and LauraDALLAS, Texas — “Welcome Home, George and Laura!” The little white yard signs are all over my neighborhood, where the
-
A Fourth Sorority?Although sororities ideally foster sisterhood and empower women, sororities at our college are not unequivocally successful at doing this, and we are thus ambivalent about another sorority colonizing at Harvard.
-
Inclusive DiversityA sorority celebrates its members, its diversity, and the empowerment of the women who call themselves sisters.
