Sexual assault is a disgusting act that has no place in any part of society, an institution of higher education or elsewhere. But efforts to eliminate it should not be manipulated to curtail freedom in the process.
In a stunning display of academic totalitarianism, Harvard is essentially forbidding new students from joining fraternities, sororities, or independently run single-sex “final clubs”, which are Harvard’s cross-pollination between Greek organizations and secret societies. Under a new policy, members of the class of 2021 who join such groups will be forbidden from holding leadership positions on athletic teams or other recognized student organizations, and they won’t receive school recommendations for such academic honors as the Rhodes Scholarship.
