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...complaint, filed against the Fly Club by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, has languished in the bureaucracy of the MCAD for more than a year-and-a-half, but spokespersons at the commission have said, for the first time, that the case will be decided in the next few weeks...
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...
...extensive briefs filed so far by Schkolnick's lawyer, Kevin G. Baker, do provide a glimpse at some of the more specific points of contention in Massachusetts law concerning gender discrimination and freedom of association...
...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...
...Club is one of the nine all-male final clubs whose roots at Harvard go back to the late 19th century. In 1984, the University severed ties with the clubs because they violated a College rule against single-sex organizations. Schkolnick, who conceived the idea with other editors of the liberal monthly Perspective, filed her complaint with MCAD in 1987, saying she was unable to hold membership in the club because of her gender. The student group Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) was added as a co-complainant in April of this year...