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...would question that. What the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) has been investigating for the past two years is whether that discrimination is legal...
...while the legal debate is convoluted, arcane and ringing with irony, the moral issues of final club discrimination are perfectly straightforward. While we can deplore clubs' refusals to admit women, the spirit of our federal laws gives the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) no right to force them to do so. On moral grounds, MCAD's decision not to interfere was entirely appropriate...
...case was for a time one of the most hotly contested student issues at Harvard, but the debate died down because of the protacted length of the investigation by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), a quasi-judicial body...
...think the decision was incorrect and unfair--according to our attorney [Kevin G. Baker], the decision was unfair," said SWAT member Crystia A. Freeland '90. Freeland said MCAD accepted questionable evidence provided by the Fly Club's attorneys without ascertaining the truth of the facts itself...
However, Schnolnick feels that it is possible the two-year wait could affect the outcome of the case. Because the complaint and the publicity have been less immediate, there is "less pressure on [MCAD] to make the progressive decision...