Word: finaling
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...placing undue weight on the evidence provided by the final club in its own defense and by placing the burden of proof on Scholnick, MCAD did not successfully undertake the task it was established to perform...
SCHKOLNICK'S case would have been much stronger had she filed it before 1985, when Harvard broke ties with the final clubs. Were they still an official part of the University, the clubs would undoubtedly have been found to violate the Massachusetts General Law provisions on which Schkolnick based her case...
HARVARD'S nine all-male final clubs do, by definition, discriminate against women...
Although we still hold that the final clubs discriminate illegally against women, we cannot simply declare that all of MCAD's findings were wrong. The commission was right that the club's connections to the University do not, of themselves, make the club "public accomodation" under a narrow definition in Massachusetts law. Complainant Lisa J. Schkolnick had to prove that the Fly Club is such "public accommodation" to win her case...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, Harvard faled in its final test of the spring break. Fifth-raked Pepperdine soured the Crimson's California conclusion with a 5-3 victory...