Word: suits
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RESOLVED, That the Undergraduate Council hereby endorses Schkolnick's suit, condemns the final clubs for sexism and elitism, and urges every undergraduate to avoid all contact with these monsterous institutions...
...most flagrant example of this tactic is the Council's recent aborted attempt to take a stand in Lisa Schkolnick's suit against the Fly Club. The Council agreed to give Schkolnick $250, but at the same time it refused to endorse her suit. More recently, it rejected a weaker resolution which urged the clubs to admit women. As a result of its studied ambivalence, the Council can count on being on the winning side of the final club dispute--no matter which side wins...
...which people fundamentally disagree. Final clubs present just such an issue. Turnout at Council elections has been pathetically low recently; 40 percent of the student body in the last election. Next year, I suspect, it will reach its lowest point ever. When the organization insists upon not endorsing a suit but funding it nonetheless or when it demands an open meeting with the Corporation but accepts a closed meeting in the end, we are left with very little to vote upon come the next election...
WHAT good is Radcliffe College? That's a question Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 and many other students have asked since Radcliffe's Board of Trustees decided not to support her suit against the Fly Club...
Recently, the prisoners successfully sued Suffolk County for failing to maintain the facility's physical plant, which, according to Williams, is "ready for the bulldozer." As a result of the suit, prisoners are locked up for extra hours to avoid health and safety problems, he says...