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...lawyer for two Black police officers who charged Cambridge with discriminatory promotion policies said yesterday she will appeal a ruling against her clients made earlier this month by the Massachussetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD...
Arguing that the state agency did not allow her to respond to the city's defense against her clients' complaint, attorney Hinda Magidson said she planned to seek a hearing with the MCAD's investigating commissioner to appeal the decision...
...such activity was going on at the Fly Club, MCAD should have taken action to end the club's discrimination against women. But Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 never even claimed that any business was actually done at the club. She merely alleged that club members later used their club connections to advance their careers...
...constitutional protection of freedom of association and the staff's broad definition of business activity are incompatible. Under the staff's interpretation of anti-discrimination law, every group which met to play cards or watch TV would not only be subject to sanctions from MCAD, but would bear the burden of proving its innocence as well...
...staff attacks MCAD for allowing the Fly Club to poll its own alumni about their business activities. Clearly, such a poll is far from scientific or conclusive. But the issue of whether members do a lot of post-college networking or just a little is not at the center of the legal debate. The issue is whether actual business activity goes on on club property, and Schkolnick evidently concedes that it does not. The final clubs exist to fulfill young men's desires to drink, socialize with people like themselves and "socialize" with women. While the clubs are undoubtedly offensive...