When No Means Yes | The Harvard Crimson - Nov. 2010 |

On the night of Oct. 13 [cached], new pledges to the Yale fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon marched through the residential section of Yale's campus. The students, some blindfolded, chanted such revolting phrases as "No means yes! Yes means anal!" and "My name is Jack, I'm a necrophiliac; I fuck dead women, and fill them with my semen!"

Any remotely intelligent human being must recognize the inappropriate nature of those words, and I am certain that the impressionable DKE pledges would be mortified by their actions if they seriously reflected on them. However, the fact remains that bright men chanted misogynistic phrases that, intentionally or not, encouraged rape. The Yale Women's Center justifiably condemned the event as "hate speech" and "an active call for sexual violence."

Since then, members of DKE have formally apologized to the Women's Center for their actions. Two other Yale fraternities have condemned DKE. The Yale administration issued a formal statement promising to reprimand the leaders of DKE. Nonetheless, an instance of blatant sexual harassment affecting a large number of Yale freshman occurred in 2010 in one of the most open-minded universities in the country.

No matter how much we like to deny it, Harvard and Yale are very similar. Our students come from the same backgrounds, study the same subjects, and live and breathe in the same Ivy-League environment. As Harvard students, we should not shrug off last week's horrifying events as additional proof for why "Yale sucks." Instead, the DKE incident must serve as a warning to Harvard.  

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In another incident, in September 2009, the so-called 'pre-season scouting report' was issued via email in which a group of male students circulated a list of 53 female students ranking them in order of how many beers they would have to have before they slept with them.

And on January 2008, a group of pledges from the Zeta Psi fraternity surrounded the entrance to the Yale Women's Centre at midnight holding signs saying, 'We Love Yale Sluts'.

It is argued that this behaviour limited women's equal access to educational opportunities at the university and that there were 'inadequate responses' to the sexual misconduct.

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