Yale Fraternity Chants About Sex, Apologizes

A Yale fraternity gave everyone on campus a lesson in sexual harassment this week, when they marched around campus chanting obnoxious things like “No means yes, “Yes means anal” and “I f— dead women.” And campus women’s groups predictably went into sexual harassment lockdown.

Obviously, the stunt was idiotic, and now the campus is in crisis mode. But the debacle serves as a reminder that college dudes like this are willing to do things they know to be completely wrong if offered enough booze. And the women’s rights groups aren’t around when that happens in private.

On Wednesday, Yale’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity members recited such winning lines as this:

“My name is Jack. I’m a necrophiliac. I fuck dead women and fill them with my semen.”

But now they’re sorry and dealing with the feminist retribution. It’s hard for a frat to distance itself completely from a pledge prank, but that’s what DKE President Jordan Forney ’11 is trying to do, calling the pledge chants “inappropriate, disrespectful, and very hurtful to others. It was a serious lapse in judgment by the fraternity and in very poor taste.”

There was a campus wide “Forum on Yale’s Sexual Climate” today, and the frat is undergoing counseling with campus women’s rights group.

Oddly, DKE is the same frat that was represented in an art video in 2007. Some of the brothers then participated in “Fraternity,” which is a recording of frat members competing to see who could scream the longest. It’s actually rather fascinating, and shifts between funny and intimidating pretty quickly:

As IvyGate says:

“The men were happy to participate in the project in exchange for a keg of beer.”

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened at Yale. In 2008, 12 Zeta Psi pledges stood outside the campus Women’s Center holding signs that read “We Love Yale Sluts.”