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...Perhaps Schkolnick was inspired by a recent Supreme Court case against the New York State Club Association. Many rich and famous social clubs, such as the Century Club, are under attack by professional business women who charge that commercial interactions take place among the restricted membership of the clubs, and thus women are prevented from having equal access to their colleagues in the business community...
First of all, Schkolnick, a Mather House senior, said that she is modeling her case after that of Sally Frank, a former Princeton undergraduate who sued one of that college's eating clubs for sexual discrimination. But that comparison seems a bit stretched...
...example, that case involved a group of clubs which are much more intimately involved in student life--and only two of which discriminated against women. A large portion of the undergraduates eat at these clubs on a regular basis. Even Kevin Baker, a Boston lawyer who volunteered to help Schkolnick, admitted in a recent Crimson article that, in Frank's case, there was "a different situation, different statutes, and a different set of facts...
...Schkolnick did succeed in her crusade, imagine what would happen. First of all, even if women were allowed by law to be "punched," I highly doubt that any of the clubs would let them in. Instead, the likely result would be the eventual destruction of the clubs, which would deal a fatal blow to the already heavily damaged social life on campus. If Schkolnick is so adamant about the "benefits" women are missing out on, why doesn't she put her efforts towards something constructive, like creating a program to further female students' contacts with one another and with professionals...
...issue of gender discrimination is a very serious one, and should not be taken lightly. In the professional world, women are often discriminated against simply upon the basis of their sex, and that is clearly wrong. In this case, however, I just fail to see why Lisa Schkolnick believes women are discriminated against. Those mystical "benefits" just don't exist...