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...Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88 took matters into her own hands by filing a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging the all-male Fly Club with gender discrimination. In the wake of Schkolnick’s complaint, students postered the campus, rallied outside club parties and called on the Undergraduate Council to denounce final-club sexism...
Several Harvard students have also offered their support to Schkolnick. Brian Margolis, a first-year Harvard Law student has offered to do legal research on Schkolinick's case, and several undergraduates have said they want to help Schkolnick start a petition of students' opinions on final clubs...
Electa Sevier '87-'88, who said she has many friends in the clubs and has spent time at club functions, said yesterday that she has offered to provide personal written testimony against the clubs for Schkolnick. Sevier said she thinks the all-male clubs effectively limit the services available to women at Harvard...
...addition to attracting national media attention, Schkolnick said she has received letters from around the country--some praising and some condemning her action. Schkolnick said she has also received several harassing or threatening phone calls in the past month...
Huschle said he thinks such harassment is "horrible" and has given Schkolnick his guarantee that the calls are not coming from any Fly Club members