Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
It is hard to believe that, within a university that is seen as one of the most prestigious in the country — one that has been the focus of a forgery scandal in Korea, one that has seen applications increase wildly in the past few years — there still exists an atmosphere of tacit misogyny. I’m not talking about the fact that fraternity brothers gathered around the...
Months ago, I walked in the Women’s Center, expecting to easily enter. I certainly did not expect to be confronted with a group of men, ebulliently shouting, as I heard it, “Dick! Dick! Dick!” while they carefully arranged themselves, edging as close as possible to the sign that boldly declares: “Yale Women’s Center.” While grinning, the brothers perversely...
Students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity who were involved in January’s “Yale Sluts” incident stood before the Executive Committee of Yale College three weeks ago and were found “not guilty” on a charge of intimidation and harassment, sources close to the proceedings confirmed this weekend. The group featured in the photograph that sparked the...
In “The Brewers’ Tale,” the cover story of Friday’s scene, several quotes under the subheading “The Neophytes” — which describes the brewing experiences of freshmen fraternity brothers Justin Steinfeld ’11 and Dan Stone ’11 — were incorrectly attributed to Steinfeld. All of the quotes in that section should have been attributed to Stone. Friday’s...
Facing charges of misogyny and insensitivity leveled against them by the Women’s Center, among others, following the circulation last month of the “We Love Yale Sluts” photo, several leaders of Yale’s fraternities have begun discussion of an “inter-fraternity council” — a student-led body of representatives from Yale’s fraternities that would serve as a...
If the administration accepts the Women’s Center’s latest demands in response to last month’s “We Love Yale Sluts” photograph, all the Zeta Psi-affiliated students involved in the incident will face disciplinary action before the University’s Executive Committee. In what would amount to a drastic change in current policies if implemented, the Center’s...
Members of the Yale Women’s Center board of directors told the News over the weekend that they will push the University to change portions of the undergraduate regulations in order to address what they called “fraternity-sponsored or -enabled sexual harassment, assault and rape.” In the wake of controversy over the circulation last week of a photograph in which...
Members of the Yale Women's Center board of directors told the News late Thursday night that they will push the University to change some of its policies in order to address "fraternity-sponsored or enabled sexual harassment, assault and rape." In the wake of controversy over the appearance of a photograph in which students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity are...
The Zeta Psi pledge who was shown holding a derogatory sign in front of the Yale Women’s Center in a photograph that surfaced last weekend has spoken publicly for the first time — and says he did not even read the sign before he held it up. In a televised interview Wednesday night with WTIC-TV, the Hartford Fox affiliate, Giovanni Christodoulou ’11 said the Zeta...
The Yale Women’s Center’s message to Zeta Psi was clear: “Lawyer up.” But the legal merits of a possible sexual-harassment case against the fraternity are much less clear, several legal experts told the News on Tuesday. After a picture of the fraternity’s pledge class standing in front of the Center with a sign that read “We Love Yale Sluts” surfaced on the...
Members of the Yale Women’s Center board threatened to initiate legal action Sunday after discovering a photograph posted on Facebook.com depicting 12 Yale students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity posing in front of the Center with a sign reading “We Love Yale Sluts.” The picture made its rounds through e-mail inboxes around Yale’s campus Sunday night...
Marcus Hooks ’09 brought two vanilla lattes to an interview with the News last Sunday — one for himself and another for the reporter. The vice president of macro development for the Yale chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity knows how to behave like a gentleman. SigEp, known on campus as “The Gentleman’s Frat,” launched an initiative this year that brings...
