Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Final clubs do not admit women, except during special occasions such as parties, when they admit lost of them. Some people believe this is discrimination, largely because it is discrimination. Final club members say they just want to male bond, except during parties, when they have other things on their minds...
...legal question, the Massachussets Commission Against Discrimination, a quasi-judicial body, will decide whether the clubs should be required to admit women. As a philosophical question, final clubs will always be debated and never resolved. But as a practical question, the solution for students is obvious: Males and females should boycott the clubs...
Despite the heated controversy set off by Schkolnick's case, most of the campus debate has centered on the moral--and not the legal--implications of whether or not the club should be forced to admit women, in part because the legal aspects of the complaint have remained vague...
...while this accusation represents no legal breakthrough, several of the affidavits and citations filed to date reveal in more concrete terms how Schkolnick and her lawyers hope to force the Fly Club to admit women. The main document that lays out this legal argument is mostly a 29-page compilation of state and federal anti-discrimination precedents--but legal experts say the issues it raises will be around for a long time...
...still, Baker's brief contends that the graduate-controlled governing body changes the nature of the club's status. In particular, the document says that even if the members of the club decided to admit women, its trustees could prevent...