Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...
What sins have the members of the Fly Club committed to bring down upon themselves the righteous wrath of Ms. Schkolnick and Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz? The club has no affiliation with the University Ms. Schkolnick supports with her tuition. The activities of the members involve no lawbreaking and take place within the confines of the building. Even the supposed benefits which the club denies Ms. Schkolnick because of her gender hold no appeal for her. She admittingly brings her suit against the Fly Club without any care for what the Club specifically offers its members...
...truth what so disturbs Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz is that deep within the shrouded confines of the Fly Club, people are thinking thoughts of which Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz do not approve. People are expressing opinions which Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz do not like. The Boston Globe reports that Ms. Schkolnick's true purpose in suing the Fly Club is to destroy the "attitudes they [the final clubs] perpetuate..." She and Mr. Dershowitz feel that the clubs create an atmosphere which breeds discriminatory instincts, that these instincts are harmful to society, and that, in the name...
...agree with Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz that views supporting class or sex or race privilege are almost always untenable. I agree with Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Deshowitz that such views need to be fought. Where I disagree with them and what I find so hypocritical about their position is the way in which they attack attitudes they find intolerant. They do not try to persuade the final clubs to admit women. They do not try to convince the Harvard community to avoid the clubs until the clubs see the error of their ways. They make no effort to establish...
...Globe article, Ms. Schkolnick states that she is out to change Harvard traditions left over from the "bad old days." What she and Mr. Dershowitz do not realize is that they themselves personify a "bad old" tradition which predates Harvard by several millenia: the misguided zealot. Waving the banner of liberalism, Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz want the state to stamp out ideas which differ from their own. Raising the cry of liberty, they want the state to suppress private activities which might result in opinions they dislike. To achieve their ends, they are drawing upon a more recent tradition...