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...most surprising aspect of the final club debate on campus is that some people who want to see the clubs shut down do not support Lisa Schkolnick's complaint against the Fly Club. These students do not believe that Schkolnick's suit will destroy the clubs or make them any less elitist, but rather that integrating the clubs would actually enhance their standing on campus, render them more socially acceptable, and bring them back into the center of campus life...
Scroll and Key's decision comes at a time when other Ivy League colleges are examining the role of social clubs on college campuses. In December, Harvard's Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging gender discrimination against the Fly Club, one of nine Harvard all-male final clubs. At Princeton, recent incidents of alcohol poisoning resulted in the filing of criminal charges of serving alcohol to minors against five eating club officers and their two clubs...
...Kevin Baker, Schkolnick's lawyer, said "from a legal point of view, it indicates a growing awareness or willingness [to accept] that that kind of segregation is reprehensible...
SWAT members said they are now planning a variety of activities and fundraisers to support Schkolnick's case. The group has had two organizational meetings that each drew more than 20 students, said John A. Felitti '91, one of SWAT's founders...
Money raised by SWAT will go to helping Schkolnick pay non-legal fees on her complaint, as well as their own activities...