Jezebel: Yale

Just How Bad Is Child Abuse in America? Very.

Cassie Murdoch — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST

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 horrifying. More »

Yale Quarterback Accused in Vaguest Sexual Assault Story Ever [Updated]

Anna North — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:15:00 EST

Yale's star quarterback seems to have withdrawn his Rhodes scholarship application because he was accused of sexual assault.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. More »

Are Yale Guys Bad at Sex?

Anna North — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:30:00 EST

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." More »

Sex Week at Yale Is Officially On

Anna North — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:05:00 EST

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. 4-14. The keynote speaker will be Ann Olivarius, a Yale Law and School of Management grad, Rhodes Scholar, and now partner in a corporate law firm. Olivarius was also a plaintiff in Alexander v. Yale, the case that led to the establishment of a sexual harassment grievance system at Yale. That case was an inspiration for Yale students' current Title IX complaint against the university (they say the school failed to fix its sexist campus environment), so the choice of Olivarius is a pretty significant one. She'll be talking about "sexual education and discourse as a means to prevent sexual violence." More »

Yale University Discovers Firsthand the Awful Results of Gender Cohabitation

Erin Gloria Ryan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:30:00 EST

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 live with whomever they please, the mind bendingly awful results are in: almost no one is against gender integrated housing, and more than 2/3 of students say they're interested in partaking in yearlong boy/girl sleepovers. The horror! More »

Yale Students Propose Less Porny Sex Week

Anna North — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:10:00 EST

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. More »

Will Yale's Sex Week Ditch Its Sketchy Sponsor? [Updated]

Anna North — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:20:00 EST

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 Romance. More »

Murdered Student's Family Sues Yale, Says School Didn't Protect Women

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:10:00 EDT

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 women on campus for years, and didn't do enough to ensure Le's safety. More »

GMA Reporter Gets A Taste Of Yale's "Hostile Sexual Environment"

Whitney Jefferson — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:35:00 EDT

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Midway through a news package in which Good Morning America reporter Linsey Davis visited Yale to report on the Title IX investigation of the university, we got a special glimpse of life on campus. More »

The World Is Chanel's Billboard

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST

Chanel is apparently turning the Musée D'Orsay in Paris into a giant, sparkly, 2,890 square foot billboard for No. 5 perfume. We hope the museum is being rewarded handsomely for its services as a host for corporate messaging. [WWD]

Harvard "Gangbanger" Incident Investigated By Massachusetts Attorney General

Irin Carmon — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:12:00 EST

The shut-down of a party for black Harvard and Yale alums — allegedly out of fear that "local gangbangers" were infiltrating — is now being investigated by the civil rights division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's office. More »

Club Mistakes Black Harvard Crowd For "Local Gangbangers"

Irin Carmon — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:20:29 EST

A party for black Harvard and Yale alums at a Boston club this weekend was shut down just after 11pm. Why? The club owner was concerned that a long line of black people outside would make the club look bad. More »

Yale Frat Punished For Stupid Chant

Anna North — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:36:00 EDT

Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Yale frat that caused an uproar last week by chanting slogans like "no means yes," has been ordered to stop pledge activities, and more punishment may be forthcoming. More »

Yale Frat Boys Are Not Worthy Of Your Outrage

Anna North — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:58:00 EDT

This week some boys marched around the Yale campus shouting slogans including "no means yes," "yes means anal," and "I fuck dead women." They were clearly seeking attention. Fine. Here. More »

Rebel Yell

Anna Holmes — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:10:00 EDT

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Yale's Most Beautiful: Just As Wonderbread As You Might Expect

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:30:00 EST

It's that time of the year, when Yale students discover out who among them is deemed attractive, thanks to the annual 50 Most Beautiful issue of student publication Rumpus. And here's a shocker: it's not exactly a diverse list. More »

Alas, Poor Yorick

Anna North — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:45:00 EST

A human skull once used as a ballot box by Yale's not-so-secret Skull and Bones society is now up for auction. Maybe you can call in a bid on your skull phone? [NYP, RGS] More »

Freshman 15 Or ED? Your Choice!

Sadie Stein — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:00:00 EDT

College cafeterias have started posting calorie counts in their cafeterias. What's wrong with this picture? (Besides the totally unrelated John Belushi image, that is.) More »

Lab Tech May Be A Suspect In Yale Grad Student Murder

Anna North — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Sources are saying that a lab technician who worked in the same building as Yale graduate student Annie Le is the main suspect in her murder. More »

"Beer" Ranking Makes Us Vomit

Anna North — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:40:00 EDT

An email is making the rounds at Yale, "ranking" girls according to how many beers it would take to make them look hot. How many beers would we need to find this amusing? ∞. [NBC] More »

It looks like Aliza Shvarts' 15 seconds...

Jessica G. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:20:00 EDT

It looks like Aliza Shvarts' 15 seconds are up: the plucky Yale senior has submitted a new, non-embryonic art project in lieu of her original project, a representation of nine months of self-induced miscarriages that included her own blood. (She would have failed the course had she not displayed any work at all.) In related news, those gross frat boys who held up the "We Love Yale Sluts" sign in front of the Yale Women's Center have been found not guilty of intimidation and harassment charges stemming from the incident. [YDN, Feministing] More »

Our favorite art school provocateur, Aliza...

Jessica G. — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Our favorite art school provocateur, Aliza Shvarts, may not get to show her controversial abortion art project — predicated upon a series of artificial inseminations and alleged miscarriages — after all. According to the Yale Daily News, "The University will not allow Aliza Shvarts '08 to display her controversial senior art project at its scheduled opening Tuesday unless she confesses in writing that the exhibition is a work of fiction, Yale officials said Sunday." In addition, two of Shvarts' advisers, lecturer Pia Lindman and School of Art Director of Undergraduate Studies Henk van Assen, who allowed the project to go forward, have been disciplined. Shvarts has also weighed in on the debacle: "I started out with the University on board with what I was doing, and because of the media frenzy they've been trying to dissociate with me...Ultimately, I want to get back to a point where they renew their support, because ultimately this was something they supported." [YDN] More »

Aliza Shvarts: The Halloween How-To For Harvard Students

Jennifer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Aliza Shvarts '08 is more than just an alleged abortion-inducer; according to our commenters, she is also a style icon of sorts. In fact, we predict that come Halloween, students all over Cambridge and other rival Ivies will be dressing up as the suddenly-notorious art student from that other East Coast institution of higher learning. In order to help them along, we decided to create a handy guide to recreating Aliza's look... Black leggings? Check! Fringe boots? Check! Leopard-print shorts? Of course. Everything they need to create a Shvarts costume (except for the discarded uterine lining), after the jump. More »

One Thing Is Certain: Right Now, Yale University & Aliza Shvarts '08 Are 100% Annoying

Anna Holmes — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:50:00 EDT

I seem to be the only one of the Jezebels online and — lucky for me! — now we're hearing that Aliza Shvarts is disputing Yale University's claim that her performance piece was a work of fiction. Reports the Yale Daily News:

Shvarts stood by her project, calling the University's statement "ultimately inaccurate."...But Shvarts reiterated Thursday that she repeatedly used a needleless syringe to insert semen into herself. At the end of her menstrual cycle, she took abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, she said. She said she does not know whether or not she was ever pregnant. "No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen," Shvarts said, "because the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties."

Oh, Christ. Anyway, interested (and still-awake) readers can learn more here. I, for one, have had about enough of this youngster and am going to exercise my right to control my body and go to bed. More »

Yale: Abortion Art Piece Was "Creative Fiction"

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:45:00 EDT

So it turns out that Aliza Shvarts, the Yale student who said she impregnated herself only to abort her embryos using "herbal" methods several times over for an art project, totally pulled one over on everyone. (Well, everyone except Moe.) She didn't really get pregnant a bunch of times, and she didn't really give herself abortions. According to a statement issued by Yale spokesperson Helaine S. Klasky, the entire stunt — Shvarts' press release, visual presentation, and narrative materials — was all part of Shvarts' real art project: Proving people are gullible weenies. More »

Frat Boy Shown With "Sluts" Sign Says He Never Disrespects Women

Jessica G. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:20:00 EST

Remember the charming boys at the Yale chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity who posed with a sign proclaiming "We Love Yale SLUTS" directly in front of the campus women's center? Well, the frat boy holding the sign, Yale football player Giovanni Christodoulou, was interviewed yesterday by a New Haven Fox affiliate, and while he apologizes for his actions, he doesn't exactly take responsibility either. "I never disrespect women...We're all terribly sorry and we learned our lesson," Gio says. But earlier in the clip, he claims: "I never even read the sign, they gave me the sign, I held it up. They said it was a scavenger hunt." Regardless, it's unclear if the case would hold up in court, and even if it did, would it prevent future idiot frat boys from making ignorant comments to women? More »

Yale University "Sluts" Strike Back At Sexist Frat Boys

Slut Machine — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST

You see the gentlemen holding up a sign that reads "WE LOVE YALE SLUTS" right in front of the Yale Women's Center? That little stunt was a pledge prank for the school's Zeta Psi fraternity, and the Women's Center is now taking legal action against the frat for sexual harassment. The question of whether or not this was indeed harassment has been raised, since it was "just a joke" and the men never came in contact with any women. But I say: hell yes it's harassment! As someone who openly refers to herself as a "slut" and throws the term around rather lovingly, I have to say that it's not as benign when used by everyone. (It's kinda like how white people can't say "nigger.") And these Yale students should be smart enough to figure out that posing in front of the fucking Women's Center with such a sign would at the very least ruffle feathers. There's no two ways about it: They were intentionally being dicks. More »

Condoms: Could Your Partner Be Screwing You Over?

Jennifer — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:00:00 EST

While home in Atlanta last week, I was privy to a conversation involving friends of my parents debating over who should be supplying the condoms among college kids. "We told our son to always, always bring his own — you should never trust a girl's condoms. She could have tampered with them," one person said. (Which was exactly what some poor Yale freshmen were told in a prank pulled by the senior class this year.) I jumped in: "She could have tampered with them?! What about him? His condoms are probably old. And expired! And they've probably been in his wallet for the past 10 years." Said a third: "It's true, a guy wouldn't want to fuck with the condom — no way he would want to get a girl pregnant. Only a girl would try to get pregnant through deceptive condom usage...But on the other hand. Oh God. What idiot would trust a college-aged boy to bring the condoms?!" More »

Cathy Horyn Continues Her Pro-Marc Jacobs Crusade At Yale, Students Don't Care

Jennifer — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:00:00 EST

New York Times chief fashion critic Cathy Horyn left the ivory tower to go to the Ivy League yesterday, speaking to Yale undergrads at an informal tea. But the Yale kids, it seems, weren't exactly beating one another down to grab seats at her talk. As the article in the Yale Daily Herald on Horyn's visit begins, "Although the crowd of couture lovers at Yale may warrant a label reading size petite, fashion critic Cathy Horyn brought a critical approach Monday to an oft-neglected campus art: fashion." Well, snap. Yalies, it seems don't give a fuck about fashion on many levels. Horyn told the "predominantly female crowd of about 60 students" that she likes her job because she gets to write about whatever the fuck she wants and a firm hand is never even raised to her beloved prose: "If Armani pulls his ads, no one blames me and I don't have to worry about it — so I don't," she says. Wow. A subtle dig at the fashion mag editors who pander to designers? We're sure the students appreciated that! More »