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Final Clubs Won't Die

DISSENTS

By David H. Goldbrenner

The staff's position seems to be that final clubs are bad because they are exclusive and elitist, so let's support new restrictions that will make them even more exclusive and elitist. Perhaps the staff feels that by turning the final clubs back into highly restricted gentlemens's clubs, they will somehow wither and disappear. This is dubious at best; they have been here for almost a century and aren't going anywhere; we should advocate that they open themselves up to the rest of the community, not vice-versa.

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