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...piece in last Tuesday's Crimson ["Liquor, Pot, Cocaine, Ecstasy and Sexism," 11/22/88] which insinuated that club members are somehow responsible, among other things, for the homelessness problem in Cambridge. Lisa Schkolnick's complaint (not yet even a lawsuit) against the Fly Club to the Massachussetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) is as yet unresolved. But the club issue on campus, if one can believe the front page stories about "The Boors of Harvard" [Perspective, November '88], has long since been decided in her favor. But the simple fact that well-connected people in the campus press say the clubs...
Character assassination by innuendo is hardly new, but these tactics are really all the militants have left. The legal case against the Fly Club (if indeed it ever emerges from MCAD at all) is tenuous at best. Even Perspective now admits that if the clubs are really private property there is (or should be) no further debate. In a choice between the continued existence of the final clubs and government assumption of the right to tell private citizens with whom they must associate on their own private property, the clubs must win. The freedom of association guaranteed by the Constitution...
Kathleen M. Allen, the commissioner at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) who will ultimately decide the case, said yesterday that the commission had made what she thought would be the last batch of "interrogatories"--requests for information. Previous MCAD orders had asked for more detail on the original interrogatories sent out after Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 filed her complaint against the final club last December...
Baker, who received a copy of MCAD's letter last week, said the document set the deadline for filing this information at November 30. In the past, the club has stalled in supplyingrequested materials...
...information sought in the latestinterrogatories are more pointed than in previousrequests, Baker said. And while MCAD may alreadyknow some of the answers, the lawyer said, "Theywant the answers to be part of the record...