Campus Reacts To Inflammatory Flyers
By REBECCA D. ROBBINS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Students in all nine River Houses received sealed invitations under their doors early Friday morning professing to come from “Harvard’s Newest Final Club”—with the inflammatory statements that “Jews need not apply” and “Coloreds OK.”The enclosed flyer, bearing a crest of a griffin encircled by a laurel wreath, invited recipients to the first introductory punch event of the purported social club “The Pigeon.”
The invitation listed three virtues, each with asterisked notes. The first principle, “Inclusion,” came with the footnote, “Jews need not apply.” The second, “Diversity,” was followed by the words, “Seriously, no fucking Jews. Coloreds OK.” And the third, “Love,” directed readers to the term “Rophynol”—a misspelled rendering of rohypnol, the date rape drug better known as roofies.
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I laughed at the "Seriously..." part.
ReplyDeleteMe too. It sounds like some over the top social commentary. I think it accomplished its author's goal.
DeleteJews never want to hang out with other fucking Jews. That's why it's obvious that flyer was masterminded by Jews.
DeleteClever, clever Jews.
(Dumb Question)What is a Final Club?(/Dumb Question)
ReplyDeleteAhem...Wiki..ahem
DeleteA frat except where the douchebaggery goes to 11.
LOL! Thanks! I thought at first that it was a study group for finals. Silly me.
DeleteYeah, basically a frat, except that Harvard can't have frats because everybody has frats, and Harvard has to be different. Or, to put it another way, a selective private club (but with some clear connections to the university -- e.g. they're on the internal phone system, or were a couple of decades ago) where a small segment of the Harvard student population retreats to socialize primarily with those who would also have gotten into Harvard before the place started letting the riffraff (and their sisters!) in. Probably not all that important unless you came to Harvard primarily for the connections (business and/or social), but an annoying relic with which the university really should cut as many ties as humanly possible.
DeleteI have 2 colleagues who did undergrad at Harvard. They have characterized those years as debauched and depraved. They didn't know each other, but they seemed to have taken part in any and all manner of grossness.
ReplyDelete“Jews need not apply.”
ReplyDeleteI would be tempted to show up as the Bear Jew and display the baseball bat in all it's glory.
C/C- level satire, I'd say. The Dean probably should have leaned a bit more heavily toward this possibility, and dialed down the earnestness a bit.
ReplyDeleteAnd whoever wrote it should stop procrastinating and get back to the real papers (s)he has due.