Elitists Are Everywhere

Rather than question whether admitting women to final clubs would actually correct chauvinistic excesses, the staff engages in a silly harangue against "classism" and the "old-boy network." On these very issues, the staff is hardly innocent. Crimson compers surely anticipate the "well-placed connections" that semesters' worth of duty provide. In fact, dozens of students each year complete the comp process, never to return to 14 Plympton, remembering their position only around resume time. And if there is any clique at Harvard known for not dealing with "people unlike themselves," it is the staff.

When one sifts through the unsubstantiated charges (no public high school graduate has ever been "punched"?), one discovers that at root the staff's opposition to final clubs is opposition to ambition and freedom of association. But eliminating final clubs will not eliminate human nature. After all, the Crimson would still be around.