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...Schkolnick said she hopes to prove that the all-male clubs are an integral part of student life, encourage a sexist attitude on campus and exclude women from non-social services such as private libraries, lunches with faculty, and business networking between undergraduate club members and alumni...
...Schkolnick also said yesterday that she amended her original complaint on January 11 to add an "allegation of unlawful discrimination in services on the basis of sex." Her amendment charges that the club violates a second Massachusetts statute which prohibits organizations that provide credit and services from discriminating on the basis of gender. In the past, the law has been applied primarily to banks and insurance agencies, said Leslie B. Grier, a staff attorney for MCAD...
...Schkolnick said she made the amendment on the advice of the Boston branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU is waiting of further action by MCAD before deciding whether or not to take on Schkolnick's case, ACLU representatives said...
...Schkolnick has received backing from Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who has given her advice and agreed to appear as a witness against the clubs, and Sally Frank, who won a similar suit against two all-male eating clubs at Princeton University...
Frank, who currently teaches at the District of Columbia Law School in Washington, has sent Schkolnick relevant documents and briefs from the Princeton case and given her "legal and moral" support, Schkolnick said...