[3] Harvard attempted to impose sanctions against members of single-gender final clubs, preventing members from holding student group leadership positions, serving as varsity athletic team captains, and from having fellowships endorsed by the college.

[4][2] However, after acknowledging that this policy against final clubs violated federal law, Harvard rescinded all sanctions in 2019.

[4] This vote was taken without input from the club's graduate members who revoked the nine women's provisional membership.

[2][4][6] In May 2019, The Harvard Crimson reported that a vote of all Fox Club graduate members had failed to reach the two-thirds affirmative majority necessary to change membership policies.

[3] The Fox Club house is located on 44 John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.