Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of the legal arguments that Baker has presented to MCAD in the legal manuevering of the past year is the Fly Club's status as a private association...
Baker argues in a document filed with the state discrimination agency last May that the club "is a place of public accommodation and a provider of services within the meaning of the antidiscrimination statutes." In other words, the right of association does not apply to Harvard's all-male clubs, according to the Baker legal strategy, because it functions as a semi-official network providing services to an extensive group of members past and present...
...while this accusation represents no legal breakthrough, several of the affidavits and citations filed to date reveal in more concrete terms how Schkolnick and her lawyers hope to force the Fly Club to admit women. The main document that lays out this legal argument is mostly a 29-page compilation of state and federal anti-discrimination precedents--but legal experts say the issues it raises will be around for a long time...
...Club is one of the nine all-male final clubs whose roots at Harvard go back to the late 19th century. In 1984, the University severed ties with the clubs because they violated a College rule against single-sex organizations. Schkolnick, who conceived the idea with other editors of the liberal monthly Perspective, filed her complaint with MCAD in 1987, saying she was unable to hold membership in the club because of her gender. The student group Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) was added as a co-complainant in April of this year...
SWAT joined the complaint partly to dispel club charges that the complaint was invalid because Schkolnick had already graduated from the College. Members of SWAT said in April that including their organization as a party would guarantee that there would always be a direct connection between the case and current Harvard College students...