A Comment About

Harvard’s Segregated Gym

March 28, 2008 - 12:55 am - by Annie Jacobsen
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2008-03-29 20:42:44

If Harvard takes Federal money (and they do) and if it has any tax-favored bonds (it might) whose proceeds touched in any way the gym in question, it is worth asking if this discriminatory practice is a violation of Federal law. That said, the more direct way to tee this up is probably for some male students to demand guy-only hours. If they can base this demand on the dictates of their “religious beliefs” (however cockamamie and ad hoc these might be: after all, one’s religion is a matter of faith and not open to challenge or even inspection) then all the better. Go for it. This rubbish needs to checked at inception.