Word: swats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radical anti-final club group formed last month may undermine the credibility of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), an organization established last year to pressure the nine all-male clubs to admit women, members of the older group said this week...
Confrontational posters put up since October by Zealots in Protest (ZIP), an offshoot of the Arts Committee of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), may reverse SWAT's attempts to promote rational debate over gender discrimination issues at the clubs, SWAT members said...
...SWAT was formed last spring after a student filed a gender discrimination complaint against the Fly Club. The group held its first-ever rally on Saturday in an attempt to dissuade those "punched" by the club from joining its ranks...
Meanwhile, SWAT members rang the club's doorbell and chanted, "One, two, three, four, open up the front door." At one point, Fly club president Joel S. Post '89 came up to the door and told the protesters to "get off our porch...
However, Post said the club will not try toprevent SWAT from rallying in the future. SWATmembers have said they might hold other protests,possibly at other clubs, later this year...