Word: swatting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other student movements, it has taken even less time to lose momentum. Two years ago, Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) was one of the most vocal organizations on campus. In the wake of a complaint filed by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 to force the Fly Club to open its doors to women, students postered the campus, rallied outside club parties and called on the Undergraduate Council to denounce final club sexism...
...Today, SWAT still exists, but organized campus protest against the final clubs is nowhere to be seen. Schkolnick has graduated, her complaint is in bureaucratic limbo, and the final clubs continue to punch every fall...
...Kevin G. Baker, the lawyer for Schkolnick and SWAT, says, "I think the commission has had ample time to come to a decision...
Last spring, that new group--called Stop With-holding Access Today (SWAT)--was added as a co-complainant in the MCAD case, along with Schkolnick, who was then studying in Cairo for a year...
...affidavit signed by Jeanne F. Theoharis '91, another Perspective writer and president of SWAT, states that she was given permission to use the garden in April of 1988. She says in her statement that she asked Ellen Hatfield Towne, then-assistant to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, if it were necessary to mark the boundary between Harvard property and club property. Hatfield said that this was not necessary, Theoharis says...