Before Harvard announced sanctions that punish students in single-sex social organizations, one in four undergraduates belonged to sororities, fraternities or all-women’s or all-men’s final clubs—opportunities protected by Title IX and the First Amendment. Starting in the fall of 2018, members of those organizations are, in a word, blacklisted—stripped of opportunities to hold leadership roles in Harvard organizations and athletic teams, and to obtain post-graduate fellowships and scholarships influenced or controlled by Harvard. This decision was made unilaterally and rubber-stamped by the self-selected Corporation board behind closed doors, ignoring protests from students, faculty, parents and organizations.
HARVARD’S CONTRADICTIONS
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“VERITAS” AND REAL TRUTH
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We must take action now
On December 3rd, sororities, fraternities and students filed a pair of lawsuits challenging the Harvard's sanctions policy that punishes students who join off-campus, single-sex social organizations. The federal and state lawsuits describe how Harvard used a campaign of threats and intimidation to scare students into abandoning their fundamental rights to free association and to live free of sex discrimination.
By removing … spaces for women, Harvard is making our campus less safe for women.
Rebecca Ramos
former Delta Gamma chapter PresidentI find the tactics of the administration loathsome, and I mean to have that word quoted.
Helen Vendler
Harvard professor, Department of EnglishI think freedom of association is a profoundly important value . . .