<p>Let’s not be so quick to bash final clubs. Many clubs like the Spee has its own financial aid program to help members pay their dues. I know people in clubs who come straight from Spanish Harlem with full rides to Harvard. It’s probably unfairly simplistic to demonize final clubs as some sort of monolithic reflection of upper class privilege and elitism.</p>
<p>The real problem is that everyone in them watches family guy and/or wears a baseball cap with a pre-frayed brim.</p>
<p>Shalashaska, do you really go to Harvard? I doubt it sometimes…</p>
<p>Well I thought you were a girl for the longest time…but we all make mistakes.</p>
<p>**““I read this article this morning, and felt that there was some exaggeration, perhaps because the reporter started out with a thesis and then went out and found students who would support it.””
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<p>Yeah. Typical Boston Globe. It’s a rag with an agenda, hence the “rich kids in limousines” angle. And that’s why the Globe is going out of business, probably within the next few months, after just avoiding total collapse earlier this month. They haven’t really printed anything in the past 5 years that anyone centrist or right of center wants to read. Ironically, in the spirit of “do as I say, not as I do”, the NYT Corp. – which owns the Globe, and would be the first to write about such actions if they were perpetrated by some other corporation – is actively seeking to destroy the unions at the Globe as part of driving it into bankruptcy. Hypocrisy defined.</p>
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<p>Don’t forget that part, DukeofEarl.</p>
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<p>I wish he had elaborated on what those unaddressed needs are and the appropriate support systems needed.</p>