Word: swatting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They point to the emergence of such groups asStop Witholding Access Today (SWAT), which formedto help Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 in her sexdiscrimination grievance against the all-malefinal clubs. Other new groups this year includeDefeat Homophobia, a new branch of the Gay andLesbian Students Association (GLSA), an AIDSinformation organization, and several new PhillipsBrooks House community programs...
...senior took the final steps to end sexism in the finals clubs, filing a discrimination complaint with the state against the Fly Club. Fellow students supported her cause, creating Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT) to help fund and carry on the suit when she graduates...
Naturally, she joined protests and political campaigns as soon as she arrived in Cambridge, becoming an editor of the liberal monthly "Perspective," a leader of Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT)'s fight against the final clubs and a volunteer in several Phillips Brooks House programs...
Tactics, too, have changed. Instead of protesting in front of the final clubs, Theoharis says SWAT sought endorsements from the Harvard administration, from Radcliffe and from the Undergraduate Council. She says modern activists now resort to confrontation only as a last resort, when working within the system fails...
...With divestment, with Central America, you never know how much [you are] chaning people's attitudes, you never know the whole issue. With SWAT we can say we are experts on the final clubs because we go to Harvard." Theoharis says she thinks activism has gained adherents by turning inward because "it's on an immediate level." And she remains confident that despite the problems faced by college activists, in the end their causes will prevail...