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Home Front: Culture Wars
Teddie belongs to exclusive university club of his own
2006-01-13
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy belongs to a social club for Harvard students and alumni that was evicted from campus nearly 20 years ago after refusing to allow female members.

According to the online membership directory of the Owl Club, the Massachusetts Democrat updated his personal information -- including the address of his home that is in his wife's name -- on Sept. 7. The club has long been reviled on campus as "sexist" and "elitist" and, in 1984, was booted from the university for violating federal anti-discrimination laws, authored by Mr. Kennedy.
Regardless of one's own political beliefs, we can all agree that it's best not to mix women and Kennedys.
Mr. Kennedy has spent much of this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings interrogating Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. for his ties to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a group that is critical of admissions quotas but was formed in the early 1970s in opposition to the admission of women.

Mr. Kennedy's spokeswoman, Laura Capps, said there is "absolutely no comparison" between the Owl Club, a social group, and an organized effort to "exclude women from getting an education" at Princeton. But the university views organizationssuch as the Owl -- called "final clubs" -- quite differently from fraternities and sororities, which are considered a form of housing and therefore not coeducational. Student opposition to the Owl Club -- even after it had been expelled from campus -- was so strong that involvement in it was fodder for scandal.
Come now, we don't need to stoop to a book club to find a scandal on a Kennedy.
Posted by:Steve White

#10  How long do we have to endure the Kennedys? The only thing that they have ever had going for them is dishonest ruthlessness and a great PR firm that can make the stink on their poop smell like a cross between apple pie and Camelot's perfume. Personally - that smell makes me gag.
Posted by: 2b   2006-01-13 13:48  

#9  Sorry. Try again...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-13 13:43  

#8  Yeah, Ted Kennedy makes me want to spit.
Posted by: Ray Gunn   2006-01-13 13:15  

#7  I think that in future history books, the Kennedy Family will replace Benedict Arnold as the most known traitors in American History.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2006-01-13 13:10  

#6  Chamberlains coat holder as well.
Posted by: Crease Slolung3988   2006-01-13 11:09  

#5  Yeah, the old man could've been one of the most despicable people this country's ever produced. He makes Teddy look like a chiorboy.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-13 10:59  

#4  Ted came by it honestly. A bit on papa Joe and the theater business:

-On August 9,1929 in Pantages's flagship theater, the Beaux Arts in downtown Los Angeles, an hysterical lady in red emerged from the janitor's broom closet on the mezzanine screaming: "There he is, the Beast! Don't let him get at me!" She pointed to the silver-haired Greek owner, Alexander Pantages in the office next to the broom closet.

- The girl, Eunice Pringle of Garden Grove, California, told police that she had come to Pantages looking for work as a dancer. Instead of offering her a job, he had pushed her into the broom closet, wrenched her underwear loose and raped her. Pantages insisted that he was being framed, and that the young woman had torn and ripped her own clothing.

- Poor Pantages was convicted and sentenced to fifty years, but the verdict was overturned on appeal, on the basis that it was prejudicial to Pantages to exclude testimony about the morals of the plaintiff. The court found her testimony "so improbable as to challenge credulity."
-At the new trial, Pantages' lawyers reenacted the alleged rape and showed that it could not have occurred in the small broom closet the way Pringle had described it. The jury was also shown how athletic Pringle was, casting doubt on her claim that she could not fight off advances by the slightly built Pantages.

- The second jury acquitted Pantages, but because of the notoriety, his business had plummeted. After numerous refusals to sell to Kennedy, a few months after Kennedy's final offer of $8 million, Pantages was forced to sell out to Joe's RKO for $3.5 million.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-13 09:02  

#3  Tu, For Americas sake I hope your wrong. Unfortunately You are probably right.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-01-13 07:48  

#2  Not gonna happen unfortunately. In this loony tune state he's been getting away with his "do as I say, not as I do" act for 40+ years and will continue to do so. He'll die in that job.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-13 07:44  

#1  This guy had his day, now he's just an old man that does not have the US's best interest at heart. It's time Mass votes him out and gets with the program.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-01-13 07:28  

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