Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 involving private clubs' right to discriminate...
...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...
Despite the heated controversy set off by Schkolnick's case, most of the campus debate has centered on the moral--and not the legal--implications of whether or not the club should be forced to admit women, in part because the legal aspects of the complaint have remained vague...
...background to the complaint is fairly straightforward...
...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...