Word: swat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 began her legal battle against the Fly Club, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs. campus activists formed Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) and Zealots in Protest (ZIP) to support Schkolnick's discrimination complaint...
Last week, the raucous three-year saga ended quietly, as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) rejected Schkolnick's final appeal, claiming a lack of jurisdiction to intervene in the matters of a private club. SWAT has been swatted, ZIP has been zipped and the Fly remains open--open to continue its antiquarian membership policies, open to perpetuate an elitist old-boy network, open to treat women like slabs of meat...
...play in the scoreless first period, Eagle's wing Bill Guerin controlled the puck in front of an otherwise wide open Northeastern net with only Cole to stop him. Guerin let loose a blistering wrist-shot and Cole snagged the shot with a swat of the glove...
...odyssey that carried her from the days when she was expected to sew her own uniform in the police academy to an era in which the chief is inundated with baby showers. Despite her badge, Watson was mostly involuntarily shielded from hazardous duty. Her brief rotation to the SWAT team meant that she worked the radio. Her husband Robert, seemingly content with his own status as a police sergeant, had to coax her into bucking for each promotion. In 1980, when as a detective she was prematurely transferred out of the burglary division because she was a woman, Watson retaliated...
...hard worker who came up through the ranks, Watson will never forget being handed a dress pattern and told to sew her own uniform as a rookie cop 18 years ago. She went on to serve with distinction in practically every division from auto theft to the SWAT team, and insists that macho behavior in the department never bothered her. "Look where I am now. Heck, obviously I haven't been too put- upon," says Watson, who's expecting her third child in December. Her planned maternity leave: just six weeks...