C*********X 发帖数: 10518 | 1 Secretive, selective ... sexist? The college is pushing its elite all-male (
and all-female) organizations to change. Here’s a peek inside.
One midnight near semester’s end on the skirts of Harvard Yard, music
thumped and laughs rang out from a colonnaded, Greek-revival mansion, the
sort usually seen in Hollywood fantasies about fraternal campus life. But it
was the scene outside that suggested something other than a frat party.
This was the headquarters of the Fly, an exclusive men’s fellowship known
here as a final club. At its side door stood a silver-haired man in tuxedo,
checking names against a list of the lucky invited. Eager young women in
micro-minis queued up.
Except one. A lone girl sat on the front steps, bathed by yellow light
spilling from windows in which the silhouettes of revelers held pool cues
and beer bottles. She was hunched over, legs flopped on either side, face in
hands. She had managed to get in but was “kicked out,” she wailed into a
phone pressed against her ear. Her cheeks were reddened, streaked with
mascara.
Now, she sobbed, “they won’t let me in!”
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