Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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M. tennis under fire for homophobic act

LGBT Co-op responds to teams initiation activities

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Homophobic activities at the men’s tennis team initiation this fall have raised concerns among members of Yale’s LGBT community, a representative of whom met with Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg Monday to discuss how to respond to an event he described as a “terrible joke.”

During dinner on Nov. 10, team members wearing women’s underwear and fishnet stockings posed as members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and entered several residential college dining halls, where they sang and danced on tabletops, students who saw the incident said. The witnesses said the team’s...

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