Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 females should boycott the clubs...
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...
Because the state code is unclear with respect to the rights of clubs such as the Fly Club, those who argue that they should be opened to women bear a heavy burden of proof, according to legal experts. As Judith K. Wright, spokesperson for MCAD, says, "It's all based on precedent...
...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...
...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...