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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, getting thousands of miles away from 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...
...meantime, SWAT is continuing efforts tochange public opinion about the clubs. The groupis still lobbying Radcliffe to back the complaint.Although Schkolnick approached Radcliffe's Boardof Trustees last year, she failed to gain anendorsement of her case...
...final clubs get in the way of the[educational] pipeline, then I think we need toaddress how and why they're a barrier and what wecan do to remove it," says Horner. She adds thatshe personally supports Schkolnick's cause,although she is not sure what Radcliffe's positionshould...
...University officially severed ties with thenine clubs five years ago, but Schkolnick and SWAThave argued that the clubs remain an importantpart of undergraduate life...