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...winds of change that blew up the coast from New Jersey to New Haven never made it all the way to Cambridge. In 1984, the College gave the clubs an ultimatum: Either admit women, or get off campus. They unanimously chose the second option. Then, in 1987, Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88 sued the Fly Club for unlawful discrimination, but a Massachusetts court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to force integration. Schkolnick almost got her wish anyway, though: In 1993, the undergraduate membership of the Fly voted unanimously to go co-ed, only to reverse its decision...
...student, Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88, with the help of Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging the Fly with sexual discrimination...
Four years later, a group of women formed Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), launching a “SWAT the Fly” campaign after the club’s leader, Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88, filed a complaint against The Fly with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The complaint was dismissed in 1990 when the commission failed to find jurisdictional justification to proceed. Then-President of the Fly Andrew M. Cameron ’91 told The Crimson following the verdict, “The issue of allowing women in is for the members to decide, undergraduates...
...said she personally favors the activism of the late 1980s, citing the discrimination complaint filed by Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88 against the Fly Club and the formation of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), an organization that pressured the final clubs to let women join...
Stop Withholding Access Today was formed in the late 1980s and became one of the most vocal activist organizations on campus. The group also added its name to the list of complainants in the case of Schkolnick v. The Fly Club...