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About a year ago, Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 stepped off a plane in Egypt to begin a year's stint at the American University of Cairo, putting thousands of miles between her and the discrimination complaint she instigated against one of Cambridge's nine all-male final clubs...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD)--where Schkolnick filed her complaint in December 1988--has still not reached a verdict. Last spring, the commission tabled a Fly Club motion to dismiss the case and announced it would reach a verdict based on currently available information. That decision ended months of legal jockeying between Baker and the Fly Club's attorneys, whom MCAD labeled uncooperative at one point...
Kevin G. Baker, who represents Schkolnick and the student group Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), says he has not heard anything from the agency in months. "Who knows?," he says about a date for the decision...
...have this dream," says Schkolnick. "One day I'll come home and there will be a crowd of reporters saying, 'You won, you won.' It will be the happiest day of my life...
Meanwhile, Schkolnick keeps waiting. "I'm focusing on being a law student," she says three days into the semester and already bogged down with classes...