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Four months ago, Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) charging one of Cambridge's nine all-male final clubs with sexual discrimination, and thus began a slow process of priming the state's legal machinery. A decision from MCAD the complaint is not expected until nearly a year from...
...women who are discriminated against by the final clubs? Apparently, Mr. Cooper holds some bizarre ideas about equity in representation and thought he could represent both sides in this struggle. In the council, Cooper voted against the resolution denouncing the clubs. He voted in favor of giving Lisa Schkolnick money for her suit, but introduced an amendment to give equal funding to the Fly Club if they needed...
...Lisa Schkolnick, a senior, made the first major move to challenge the legitimacy of the clubs when she filed a complaint against the Fly Club with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) this winter, charging the clubs with gender discrimination. Her effort deserves our support...
...much as Schkolnick's complaint is admirable--as is the founding of an organization commited to her effort known as Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT)--access for women to the clubs is only the first step towards undermining the clubs' entire existence. Her suit attacks the clubs at their most vulnerable point, but their problem is not limited to sexism. The clubs have a long history of racism against Blacks and Jews. The Porcellian club admitted its first Black member only four years...
...while the senior swats shots like Lisa Schkolnick does flies, Mohler's rejections have had their price. The Kirkland House resident has had a tendency to pick up a lot of fouls...