Yale: No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal ??

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Yale suspends fraternity for raunchy chants

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/18/connecticut.yale.frat/index.html

18 May 2011

Months after video of its pledges shouting pro-rape chants went viral on YouTube, an elite fraternity chapter at Yale has been suspended. Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced the suspension of the university's Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter on Tuesday in an e-mail to students and faculty. The chapter drew widespread criticism last fall after its pledges chanted slogans that seemed to advocate rape, such as "No Means Yes" and "Yes Means Anal." Video of the frat's antics circulated widely on the internet. Delta Kappa Epsilon has operated at Yale since 1844. The chapter's illustrious roster of former members includes presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

George W. Bush

Poison Ivy League by Elvis Presley

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Lyrics

Hail to thee old ivy league
Poison ivy league
The ra-ra boys are sitting round the table tonight
The ra-ra boys have lots of plans in view
They're gonna have panty raids
And make their own lemonade
They'll live it up just like the big boys do

Poison ivy league, boys in that ivy league
Give me an itch, those sons of the rich
That poison ivy league

The ra-ra boys will go to bed so early tonight
Before exams they need a lot of rest
They gotta make good for dad
They gotta make good so bad
They'll even pay someone to take that test

Poison ivy league, boys in that ivy league
How can they flunk, they're so full of bunk
That poison ivy league

The ra-ra boys are being groomed for business some day
For better things to college they were sent
And you can bet they'll be the head of the company
As long as dear old daddy's president

Poison ivy league, boys in that ivy league
So loaded with cash, they give me a rash
That poison ivy league

So let it be told
I won't touch them with a ten foot pole
That poison Ivy league

Yale and Geronimo’s Skull

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US tries to stop Geronimo lawsuit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8112051.stm

21 Jun 2009

US officials have moved to block a legal bid by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo to have his remains reburied. Geronimo's relatives say some body parts were stolen almost 100 years ago by members of a society linked to Yale University to keep in their clubhouse. The society, known as Skull and Bones, is alleged to have stolen some of Geronimo's remains from a burial plot in Oklahoma in 1918. The relatives want to rebury the warrior, who died in 1909, near his birthplace in New Mexico. But the justice department has asked a federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit.

Geronimo’s Heirs Sue Secret Yale Society Over His Skull

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/20geronimo.html

19 Feb 2009

Geronimo died a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1909. A longstanding tradition among members of Skull and Bones holds that Prescott S. Bush — father of President George Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush — broke into the grave with some classmates during World War I and made off with the skull, two bones, a bridle and some stirrups, all of which were put on display at the group’s clubhouse in New Haven, known as the Tomb.

The story gained some validity in 2005, when a historian discovered a letter written in 1918 from one Skull and Bones member to another saying the skull had been taken from a grave at Fort Sill along with several pieces of tack for a horse. Ramsey Clark, a former United States attorney general who is representing Geronimo’s family, acknowledged he had no hard proof that the story was true. Yet he said he hoped the court would clear up the matter.

Yale Skull and Bones - Late 1800s

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Yale and Complicit Bias in the SAT

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The Power of Privilege by Joseph Soares, 2007, Excerpts

There is strong evidence that the verbal section of the SAT, which Yale has valued above the math section and subject tests, was the most biased part of the SAT. Family background, race, and gender do translate into vocabulary differences. Skewed question selection certainly contributes to the test score disparities between black and whites. [Jay Rosner, “On White Preferences,” Nation, 14 Apr 2003]

Sometimes those biases were there by intentional design, as in the 1930s; other times those biases were there because of unexamined assumptions about vocabulary and logic. The elite private sector has been able to benefit from the disguise of social-class selection by the seemingly neutral device of standardization aptitude tests. At best, elite private colleges have been merely complicit in the misrecognition of social class as academic merit. Selective college admissions throughout the twentieth century appear to have been a case of inequality by design.

Yale Adopts Character Standards – 1970s

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The Power of Privilege by Joseph Soares, 2007, Excerpts

In 1967, Yale dropped personal evaluation categories and photos. The effort to classify and predict personal qualities and leadership potential had not been abandoned, but its technology was being re-tooled. Yale retired its predicted grade algorithm in 1972. This radical departure for Yale’s tradition of measuring academic ability could be seen as yet another move away from objective measure of brains toward subjective selection based on character. Yale proposed to conduct research on reliable measures of personality.

They immediately set about translating those factors into behavioral types and came up with seven types of successful students and five types of unsuccessful students. The seven were artists, athletes, careerists, grinds, leaders, scholars, and socializers. The five failures were alienated, directionless, disliked, extreme grinds, and unqualified. Yale could cherry-pick from among privileged and prepared youths while reserving room for legacy and racial targets.

A Life in Our Times by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1981, Excerpts

Primary responsibility is exercised, even monopolized, by a small group of well-connected, upper-income Americans selected for the task by family membership and attendance at Groton, Exeter, Andover or St. Paul’s and Princeton, Harvard or Yale. They are attracted to the State department because manner there is as important as knowledge and more easily acquired and because it is the one government department where a true-blue gentleman can work. Among Harvard men, it is not important that an individual be intelligent, but he does have to be superior.

Yale Admits Blacks - 1969

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The Power of Privilege by Joseph Soares, 2007, Excerpts

The other important change in the composition of the Yale College was the enrollment of Black undergraduates. In 1969, Yale enrolled a total of twenty-six Black undergraduates. Yale was as white as elephant ivory. Racist drawings adorned the inner walls of Payne Whitney Gym. The college named after the radical slave master John C. Calhoun had Confederate flags and bull whips outside its dining room.

By 1975, eighty-six undergraduate Blacks entered ale. The average between 1975 and 1997 was ninety-one per year or 7 percent of each undergraduate class. By 2000, Black faculty representation had inched up to being 3 percent at Yale. Blacks, however, continue to be overrepresented in maintenance positions. In 2002, Blacks were nearly 44 percent of Yale’s blue-collar workers.

Even though Yale is now, without doubt, more diverse in gender, race, and religion than ever before, the preponderance of wealthy, White families has not changed from 1952 to the present.

Yale Goes Coed - 1969

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The Power of Privilege by Joseph Soares, 2007, Excerpts

Yale College was an all-male institution from its founding to 1969 when the first undergraduate females breeched its defenses. Women had been allowed into Yale’s graduate art school for a bit of cultural polish since the late nineteenth century, but in the undergraduate domain, the only women in New Haven were visiting relatives, girl friends, prostitutes, or strippers. It was an adolescent boy’s world with more than its share of ugly episodes. One the worst was “the gang rape of a prostitute in 1940 that was a running public joke during the Brewster’s undergraduate years.” [Kabaservice, “Kingman Brewster and the Rise and Fall,” 436]. Going coeducational ended the most blatant manifestations of Yale’s masculine culture, both in college and at alumni events.

In the first academic year of coeducation, 1969-19780, there were 1,025 men, and 588 women. The “freshmen” class had 230 women, but 358 transferring women moved into the sophomore, junior, and senior classes to spread women around, helping to set a new tone on campus. The Seven Sisters colleges, close to Yale in social composition and geography, provided more than their share. Of the transferring families, fully 124 were from just three of them: Wellesley, Smith, and Vassar.

In 1994, George W. Bush told an interviewer that Yale “went downhill since they admitted women.”