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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...
Moral suasion, not legal action, is the best way to SWAT, ZIP or otherwise damage the Fly and other clubs of its ilk. Don't join them. Don't attend their parties. And hold club members and hangers--on accountable for their actions. They deserve to be pariahs in a community committed to social justice...
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...