Nine women stripped of membership in Harvard club
Nine women have been stripped of their membership in one of Harvard University’s elite, traditionally all-male social clubs amid uncertainty over how the school might punish students who are members.
Two years ago the Fox Club accepted women into its ranks for the first time, but the club’s alumni leaders recently decided not to allow those nine women, who have now graduated, to continue as club members. The decision surprised and angered many younger male members, according to correspondence between two members reviewed by the Globe.
The development is only the latest in the final club fracas that has festered over the past two years at Harvard. The university administration’s pressure on the clubs to admit women has ignited a campus-wide debate over how much power a school should exercise over students’ off-campus activities. Even professors and students who loathe the clubs’ party culture and elitism have risen to their defense.
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