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...garden became a topic of debate when Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 filed a gender discrimination complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) in 1987. Schkolnick has argued that thefinal club is connected to Harvard because itcares for the College's portion of the garden...
...Schkolnick and her lawyer have maintained thatbecause of these and other ties with the Fly Club,it falls under MCAD's jurisdiction...
...Club and Kevin G. Baker, the lawyer representing complainant Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, have spent months responding to commission inquiries, raising objections and gathering evidence to back their views. Now MCAD must sort out the information and decide whether it has jurisdiction over the case and how it should rule. The state judicial body has given the case to its legal arm to review, according to spokesperson Judith K. Wright...
...matter what MCAD decides, the case is liable to be held up in appeals, and Schkolnick or the club can still file suit in civil court. A similar case against Princeton's all-male eating clubs filed by Sally Frank is still being debated after years of litigation...
While many single-sex clubs in the area have decided to change their policy since Schkolnick began her complaint, none of the clubs have voted to admit women...