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AS a legal question, the Massachussets Commission Against Discrimination, a quasi-judicial body, will decide whether the clubs should be required to admit women. As a philosophical question, final clubs will always be debated and never resolved. But as a practical question, the solution for students is obvious: Males and...
As the nine all-male final clubs in Harvard Square begin once again their fall membership--or "punching"--drives, there are real indicators that a gender discrimination complaint filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) may finally clear the first hurdle in what will likely be a landmark decision...
The complaint, filed against the Fly Club by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, has languished in the bureaucracy of the MCAD for more than a year-and-a-half, but spokespersons at the commission have said, for the first time, that the case will be decided in the next few weeks...
"There is nothing in this policy that would prevent a physician from providing a benficial service to a patient," writes the Physician Payment Review Commission, a bipartisan group which designed the medicare reform. In other words, the only thing rationed under the proposal are outrageously high doctor fees.
But Platner said despite the ordinance, she knew of no complaints about HRE discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. Officials at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Somerville Fair Housing Commission, where HRE operates some affiliated housing, said they also knew of no complaints.