Sab Club

Sab Club
Founded2002; 24 years ago (2002)
Harvard University
TypeFinal club
AffiliationIndependent
StatusActive
ScopeLocal
Chapters1
Former nameSablière Society
Headquarters1130 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United States

The Sab Club is a gender neutral final club at Harvard University. It was founded in 2002 as a women's club and went coed in 2017.

History

The Sab Club was founded as the Sablière Society in 2002 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1][2] It founders were six juniors:[2]

  • Brooke L. Chavez
  • Caroline L. Donchess
  • Brittany J. Garza
  • Maria S. Pedroza
  • Eugenia B. Schraa
  • Angie J. Thebaud

Originally all-female, the society was founded to provide a space for social gatherings that were more inclusive than the all-male clubs that dominated the campus at the time.[2][3] The society was a final club that focused more on parties and exclusivity, rather than community service and charitable activities associated with sororities.[3]

Sab Club's house at 1130 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts

In 2015 and 2016, there was a push for final clubs and Greek letter organizations to become more diverse and coed, with the university threatening sanctions for members of single-sex clubs.[4][5][6] At the time, the Sablière Society publicly stated, "female clubs have tried to work with Harvard's administration to ensure that both men's and women's clubs transition safely and that women do not become collateral damage in the transition. Harvard has given us no indication it understands these concerns."[7]

The Sablière Society was the second of two final clubs at Harvard that decided to become gender neutral, following the Spee Club.[6][4][8] Its first class of fourteen men joined the society in March 2017.[1][8] As part of this change, the society adopted the name Sab Club and changed its colors, symbol, and logo.[1][8]

The Sab Club's house is located at 1130 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.

Symbols

The Sablière Society was named for Madame Marguerite de la Sablière, a 17th-century woman whose house was a meeting place for intellectuals from Louis XIV's court.[2][1] The society's symbol was the swan and its color was light blue.[1][8] These were changed as part of the rebranding as the Sab Club in the spring of 2017.[1][8]

Membership

Members are recruited during a highly selective process with Harvard's fifteen final clubs called "punching".[1][9][4] The Sab Club has around thirty active members at a time.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Xiao, Derek G. (March 9, 2017). "With New Name, Sab Club Elects First Class of Men". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves". The Magazine. The Harvard Crimson. October 17, 2002. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Written at Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Some Harvard Women Embracing Mainstream Sorority Life". Newspapers.com. West Palm Beach, Florida: The Palm Beach Post. March 24, 2005. p. 45. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Cohan, William D. (June 15, 2024). "Harvard's Final Clubs Are Things of the Past—And Still Very Much Kicking". Air Mail issue 257. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  5. ^ Guilardi, Julia (April 6, 2017). "This Harvard fraternity will be the university's first to go 'gender-neutral'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Joshua J. Florence (December 6, 2017). "Explained: The Sanctions Against Single-Gender Social Groups" (online article). The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
  7. ^ Mills, Curt (May 6, 2016). "Harvard Targets Single-Sex Student Clubs". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d e Piper, Greg (March 6, 2017). "Harvard women's club accepts 14 men, ditches early female scholar as namesake". The College Fix. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  9. ^ Bushell, Claire (January 26, 2023). "Final Clubs, Explained". Harvard Political Review. Retrieved November 7, 2024.

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