Another shitty repercussion of the government shutdown: the Office of Civil Rights has to temporarily halt all Title IX investigations.

Yale released eight hypothetical scenarios that might fall under its "nonconsensual sex" umbrella in response to criticism regarding how the university handles sexual assault — and why it calls sexual assault "nonconsensual sex." The scenarios, which read like Ivy League "Choose Your Own Adventure" prompts (I'm…

A full two years after a sexual assault complaint sparked a federal investigation, and the Ivy League University still can't speak about sexual assault like grown-ups.

The word "rape" does not factor into Yale's new report on how the university is handling sexual misconduct; instead, the act is described as "nonconsensual sex," and it's usually punishable by "written reprimand." (Sometimes rapists have to spend some time thinking about respect!) According to the report, five of…

The U.S. Education Department wants Yale to pay $165,000 for underreporting sexual assaults over a decade ago. The university says it doesn't wanna, because it's transformed into a post-sexist utopia since then. (Debatable.)

The Yale students who first deemed themselves SWUGs — Senior Washed Up Girls — say they were making fun of the stereotypical sexist bullshit women are fed as they age; it's not like they really considered themselves decrepit hags at the grand old age of 21. But this year's SWUG crop is pushing the mindset…

We write about cancer quite a bit because, well, it's a topic that hits pretty damn close to home for many of us. However, as a society, we don't focus much on the the sexual well-being of survivors. For millions of women, though, this is a question that's of immediate interest. The Yale School of Medicine's…

Harvard State is a "for students, by students" clothing company for the future leaders of America. OK, sure. Currently on deep discount are these extra charming tank tops featuring Nicki Minaj's likeness and talk of hoes. Alright, sure. On sale for $8, that's about half-off. Stock up for holiday gifts!

Every fall, Yale's Silliman College hosts the Safety Dance, an 80s-themed event named after the Men Without Hats song, not after "safety" as a concept.

An American nun who wrote a book about sex that praised female masturbation has been accused of promoting a "radical feminist agenda" by officials of the Catholic Church, an organization that knowingly and willfully protected pedophile priests from prosecution and is the proprietor of a bank that's US officials have…

I think it's safe to say that most of us would have been at least a little bit jealous of Marina Keegan before last Saturday. She was a 22-year-old recent Yale graduate about to start a job as an editorial assistant at the New Yorker in a few weeks — before then, her plan was to revise the musical she had written,…

It happens to all of us: we stay out too late or we wake up in the middle of the night fretting about some thing or another and then we end up sleep deprived, and sure enough a few days later we come down with a cold or the flu. It's the reason our mothers used to hate letting us have sleepovers. It's why we spent so…

Child abuse is a dark and depressing reality in American life, but until now, it's never been clear just how widespread a problem it was. A new study, led by Dr. John Leventhal of Yale University, offers the first comprehensive estimate of serious injuries caused by child abuse in the U.S., and the results are pretty…

Yale's star quarterback seems to have withdrawn his Rhodes scholarship application because he was accused of sexual assault. I say "seems to" because the story is incredibly vague — and that might be Yale's fault.

College papers are often a megaphone for jerky guys to talk about how fat, ugly, or slutty their female classmates are. But now the shoe is on the other foot — a Yale student is getting a lot of attention for her column alleging that "guys at Yale are bad in bed."

In December, Yale students proposed a program for Sex Week 2012 that addressed some of the concerns about Sex Weeks past — including the criticism that it was too porn-focused. Now, the Sex Week organizers have let us know that the university has accepted their proposal — Sex Week 2012 is officially scheduled for Feb.…

When Yale University introduced gender neutral housing for seniors, it was an experiment to see what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real, and also a test to see whether male/female cohabitation might work for the general student population. And after a trial period allowing upperclassmen to…

In response to the administration's threat to ban Sex Week at Yale from using the university's name or facilities, Sex Week organizers have developed a new proposal they hope will save the event. It will focus on "female sexuality, queer sexuality, and sexual health," rather than porn.

In response to the Yale's decision to bar the student-organized "Sex Week" from using the university's name and facilities, organizers have pledged to develop an alternate program. What's not yet clear is whether this program will change the role of corporate sponsors, including controversial sex toy company Pure…

Yale is already under fire for allegedly allowing a "hostile sexual environment" to exist on campus, and the charges just got far more serious. Two years after graduate student Annie Le was murdered in a Yale lab, her parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the university, saying it's failed to protect…