Porcellian Club: we just can't help ourselves

 Department of What Were You Even Thinking

Harvard's most exclusive and very secret all-male society, the Porcellian, does not ever speak on the record, nor do its members announce themselves on record.  They just broke that rule, when a member of the class of '82 sent a letter to the Harvard Crimson.

Storey, president of the Boston beer company Harpoon Brewery and the descendant of Harvard man and first NAACP president Moorfield Storey, begged to differ.

 

Storey told the Crimson that forcing the Porcellian to accept women, as some other final clubs already have, would make sexual assaults more likely. After all, women can’t be sexually assaulted if they aren’t there.

 

“Given our policies, we are mystified as to why the current administration feels that forcing our club to accept female members would reduce the incidence of sexual assault on campus,” Storey wrote. “Forcing single gender organizations to accept members of the opposite sex could potentially increase, not decrease the potential for sexual misconduct….

He just admitted that if women came in, the Porcellian's members would assault them.  Way to demonstrate the value of that Harvard education, dude.