Word: schkolnick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other student movements, it has taken even less time to lose momentum. Two years ago, Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) was one of the most vocal organizations on campus. In the wake of a complaint filed by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 to force the Fly Club to open its doors to women, students postered the campus, rallied outside club parties and called on the Undergraduate Council to denounce final club sexism...
Today, SWAT still exists, but organized campus protest against the final clubs is nowhere to be seen. Schkolnick has graduated, her complaint is in bureaucratic limbo, and the final clubs continue to punch every fall...
...Schkolnick says she feels that one of the reasons that the final club issue has lost some of its momentum on campus is because of the kind of discrimination involved in the case...
...Because the case is about women, people don't perceive it as important," she says. There would be much more concern if Blacks or Jews were excluded from the Fly Club, Schkolnick says...
...Club attorney Casimir De Rham '46, who is with the Boston firm of Palmer and Dodge, could not be reached for comment. De Rham has refused to speak with the press about the case since Schkolnick filed her complaint in December...