Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, Granieri rejects the attitude taken by other campus activists--both liberal and conservative--who, he says, prefer provocation to reasoned discussion. When the Conservative Club invited South African Vice Counsel Duke Kent Brown to speak at Harvard three years ago, Granieri opposed the speech on the grounds that it was conceived less for its educational value than as a way to engage angry opponents. The speech ended in a shouting match and a blockade by some students, who were later charged with impeding the South African's freedom of speech...
...some Harvard administrators have their way, your local Harvard Club will soon be more than just a place to go sip sherry with the boys...
...case hinges on whether or not the club is a public organization, which is legally prohibited from discriminating on the basis of sex. Schkolnick's attorney has argued that the club's connections with graduate members, fundraising practices, open parties and the garden plot it manages jointly with the University make the Fly Club clearly public...
When Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 walked into the offices of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) in December, 1987 to file a gender discrimination complaint against the all-male Fly Club, she expected to spark long-term debate over the fate of the final clubs. But she probably had no idea how long that debate would last...
MCAD normally takes 288 days to complete an investigation. Already, the Fly Club case has greatly exceeded that period, and Kathleen M. Allen, the commissioner assigned to the case, declines to speculate on when the investigation will end. She had originally expected to wrap up the proceedings last spring, but lawyers for both sides kept submitting more and more briefs for the commission to examine...