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SWAT joined the complaint partly to dispel club charges that the complaint was invalid because Schkolnick had already graduated from the College. Members of SWAT said in April that including their organization as a party would guarantee that there would always be a direct connection between the case and current Harvard College students...
...Schkolnick, who is now a first-year student at the Law School, says she thinks the numbers of non-members attending Fly Club parties could be a central facet of her legal case. "They [the club] are generally not very selective with who come to their parties," Schkolnick says...
...Club's garden, which is adajecnt to University property and in the past has been jointly maintained, is also an important element of the case, Schkolnick says. "The garden is unique to the Fly. I'm lucky I chose it," she says. According documents filed with MCAD, the garden allows for Harvard students to have unrestricted access through the University to the club grounds...
...Supreme Court case New York State Club Association v. City of New York, New York City successfully contended that private all-male clubs served as places of business and should therefore be opened to women. This argument may provide another legal avenue for Schkolnick. But while it could be the foundation of a strong case, experts say it may well be more difficult to prove than assertions of the Fly Club's public nature...
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...