Word: membership
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This year's membership rebate from the Harvard Cooperative Society was on more than 10 percent from last year's figure, falling to 7 percent, Coop officials announced this week...
...Membership clubs in which the members do not hold club property or otherwise do not have exclusive control over the government and activities of the organization cannot claim to be private," the response states. Because the club property is held by a trust controlled by non-member, graduate trustees and the government of the club consists of 14 graduate members and two present members of the Fly, the document alleges that it cannot claim to be a solely undergraduate organization...
...brief also takes issue with the way in which the Fly Club describes its membership process. The club has claimed its "punching season" is more selective than it actually is, the Baker document says. Specifically, it says that former club president Huschle has said some members are admitted to the Fly without sponsorship of a current undergraduate member, and some sponsers do not even know their candidate. Huschle also has said that students can become members without attending an event at the club, according to the brief...
...that it is not organized for any advocacy pupose," so the members' rights will not be infringed upon by the admittance of women. "The anti-discrimination statutes merely prevent the club from using sex as a shorthand measure for selecting members in place of more legitimate criteria for determining membership," it states...
Although the Fly Club has insisted that Schkolnick's complaint has no merit because she never sought admission to the club, Baker's brief concudes, "There is no mechanism by which any woman could ever apply or otherwise be considered for membership...