Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
Thirteen months ago, the Yale Women’s Center threatened legal action against members of the Zeta Psi fraternity. Zeta pledges took a photograph outside the center with a sign reading “We Love Yale Sluts” and posted it online. Staff reporter Lawrence Gipson looks back at the photo that divided a campus only to find that little — if anything — has changed at...
A 1960s Vogue magazine photo shoot of a cocktail party in Paul Rudolph’s former New Haven house depicts women wearing pearls and men in tuxedos sipping martinis next to Rudolph’s trademark cantilevered staircase — steps that appear to be floating in the air. Parties are still hosted in that space today, but the current residents of Rudolph’s house on 31 High...
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...
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...
A Calhoun College junior was arrested Monday and suspended from the University after allegedly firing a handgun inside the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house -- leading police to discover a cache of weapons, including an AK-47, in his bedroom. David Light '09, 21, was charged with several weapons-related crimes, and police seized two illegal assault rifles and nine other...
