Harvard professors join chorus against club leadership ban

CAMBRIDGE – The drumbeat questioning the decision to punish Harvard College students who join single-sex social organizations is growing louder as a growing number of faculty and alumni and even a former university president have opposed the move.
This week, 12 Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors fired off a denunciation of Harvard President Drew Faust's May 6 declaration of the new policy. It says that beginning with the class that enters in fall 2018, students who elect to join single-sex clubs, including fraternities, sororities and centuries-old Final Clubs, will be barred from captaining athletic teams, applying for competitive scholarships or leading other on-campus organizations supported by the school.