According to students, the members are mostly male and mostly international students from South America, the Middle East and Asia. They organize “the real parties, the parties where it’s a really limited list, the extravagant vacations — I mean really extravagant,” she said. (No students interviewed admitted to being members of the group, though some said they had attended its parties.) “More than once I heard that ‘the only middle-class students here are the Americans,'” another recent graduate said. Even though Section X is hard to pin down — some students said they did not believe it existed at all — it causes enormous resentment on campus, starting with its name.

Class Is Seen Dividing Harvard Business School - NYTimes.com Sunday, September 15, 2013 @ 8:43pm