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Last week, the raucous three-year saga ended quietly, as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) rejected Schkolnick's final appeal, claiming a lack of jurisdiction to intervene in the matters of a private club. SWAT has been swatted, ZIP has been zipped and the Fly remains open--open to continue its antiquarian membership policies, open to perpetuate an elitist old-boy network, open to treat women like slabs of meat...
...even though the bad guys won, the decision was valid. MCAD is not the place to fight gender discrimination by final clubs. The place to fight that discrimination is here at Harvard--through our own moral opposition to club practices...
...Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination (MCAD) is also a contender for the grant money. MCAD was recognized for actively searching out cases of racism, rather than simply responding to complaints. Other finalists, Zegans said, include an Iowa program that helps bankrupt farmers and a Florida operation that mines aging landfills for recyclable materials...
...complainants acknowledged that MCAD may be reluctant to overturn their decision, noting that recent state cutbacks have placed serious budgetary constraints on the agency...
Though he acknowledged that MCAD's financial limitations were considerable, Baker said, "That's not a legitimate reason [to downplay the complaint]...The message to everyone else is that it's okay to discriminate...