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...state passed a law guaranteeing that "students, otherwise qualified, be admitted to educational institutions without regard to race, color, religion, creed or national origin," adding universities and secondary schools--including Harvard--to MCAD's domain...
...MCAD's most recent change of domain came in 1984 when the body was given responsibility for protecting the handicapped. Complaints from the handicapped, who were previously not protected by a state body, have made up 18 percent of all cases since that time, says MCAD's Deputy Director of Administration Terrence P. Morris...
...state body by other groups. When last fall Schkolnick decided to take the Fly Club to task for its men-only admissions policy, she took her grievance to the Cambridge Human Rights Commission. But that group lacked the resources to see the case through, so it referred Schkolnick to MCAD. Civil rights organizations, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights also deal with MCAD...
...fiscal year 1988, 3172 complaints were filed, almost double the number the commission annually dealt with a decade ago. The current figure is also more than 11 times MCAD's annual caseload during the 1940s and 1950s...
...agency may be growing so fast that it cannot deal with cases effectively. Several years ago, the average case took 400 days, and MCAD changed its procedures to bring the waiting period down to 244 days. However, in fiscal year 1988, the average case duration--from filing to completion--had climbed back up to 288 days...