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AP: Yale Suspends ‘Bushes’ Fraternity’ for Sexist Chants

AP: Yale Suspends Bushes Fraternity for Sexist Chants

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A prestigious Yale fraternity that counts both Bush presidents among its alumni is being banned from recruiting and activities on campus for five years after pledges were ordered to chant obscenities against women.

Yale says it has also disciplined several Delta Kappa Epsilon members and asked the fraternity’s national office to suspend the chapter for five years.

Yale bans fraternity for chants against women: wtnh.com

The fraternity came under fire in October after pledges marched through campus and chanted phrases about sex acts including necrophilia. Chapter leaders later apologized, and the national fraternity office ordered them only to stop all pledge activities.

Yale says the discipline was necessary to ensure “an educational environment free from harassment and intimidation.”

The fraternity’s national leader did not immediately return a message left Tuesday.

The move comes as federal civil rights officials investigate complaints by Yale students that the Ivy League university has a sexually hostile environment and failed to adequately respond to sexual harassment concerns. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights confirmed last month that it has begun an investigation at Yale.

Yale has said it will cooperate with the investigation and takes such allegations “extremely seriously.” University officials said they have begun programs in recent years to respond effectively to sexual misconduct.

The students cite incidents in which fraternity members held up a sign saying, “We love Yale sluts” outside a women’s center and chanted “no means yes” on campus last fall. They also say incoming female freshmen were ranked on attractiveness.

Yale said after a full hearing its executive committee found that the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter and several fraternity members had threatened and intimidated others, in violation of its regulations.

Yale declined to provide details about the punishment of fraternity members, citing confidentiality restrictions imposed by federal privacy law and by Yale’s policies.

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Associated Press writer Stephanie Reitz in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.

Comments (78)

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  • ritonmom
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 9:55am

    John Effing Kerry(who served in Vietnam) was a Frat as well. Just about as relevant as the Bush family being frats there.

    White, liberal,anti-men,women make my skin crawl.

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  • FlyoverConservative
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 9:34am

    Wasn’t John Kerry part of this frat as well?

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  • LastAmerican
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 8:42am

    Ah women, “can’t live with them, the end” Al Bundy

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 8:13am

    Since when did he have a fraternity?

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  • NC
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 7:44am

    And let’s see some other “famous” delta kappa epsilon alums…

    * 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi
    * 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
    * 38th President, Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
    * 41st President, George H. W. Bush, Phi
    * 43rd President, George W. Bush, Phi

    Vice Presidents of the United States

    * Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
    * Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
    * George H. W. Bush, Phi
    * J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi

    * Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa – first director of the Central Intelligence Agency
    * Sargent Shriver, Phi – First Director of the Peace Corps

    # Dean G. Acheson, Phi – Secretary of State underHarry S. Truman, Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy
    # Nathaniel Banks, Sigma – Speaker of theUnited States House of Representatives
    # Albert J. Beveridge, Psi Phi – U.S. Senator, Indiana
    # James G. Blaine, Theta – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, presidential candidate, United States Secretary of Stateunder James Garfield and Chester Arthur.
    # Gaston Caperton, Beta – Governor of West Virginia 1989-1997
    # John Chafee, Phi – Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Rhode Island, U.S. Senator
    # Chris Coons, Sigma – U.S. Senator, Delaware
    # Royal S. Copeland, Omicron – U.S. Senator of New York 1923-1938
    # Mark Dayton, Phi, U.S. Senator, Minnesota

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Delta_Kappa_Epsilon_brothers

    And the list goes on buy my remaining characters do not

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  • John1863
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 6:55am

    Bowling Green University, Bowling Green Ohio 2 years ago I was working there during the week the freshman arrive. At one of the sorority houses the girls where holding up a sign that said “Your freshman son will be my boy toy” and another one said “does your son come with batteries”. Guess what no males complained.

    The problem comes with the over educated liberal female brats who’s mommies have told them their whole lives that they are beautiful and special and that no man is worth anything but daddy (if there is one around) When in reality little miss can’t be wrong is only uses here body when it suits her own good and then complains about being disrespected.

    Proud to tell it like it is and be politically incorrect

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    • Bhaub
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:25am

      Working there, not attending?

      And I’m sure any women would love to date you, especially with pick-up lines like those. Ooh boy.

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  • Living In NYC
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:21am

    Give me a break….just a bunch of child-like socialists with nothing better to do to go after a bunch of kids. Sounds like class warfare to me.

    Go after some imporant like IMF Chief!

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  • ofallon
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:13am

    Thankfully this hatred is taken seriously by civil rights officials. Pledges have free speech but so did the lynching mobs that went through streets at night spewing their hatred. So did the brown shirts that marched in New Jersey in 1937. No one spoke out in resistance. Their behaviors were encouraged through silence while the hatred spread like cancer.

    Good call by Yale. The hatred needs to be rooted out quickly to ensure all students are provided an environment conducive to peace and freedom for all without intimidation no matter how harmless the motive. Students are not paying good money to be threatened on campus.

    Bad call by Delta Kappa Epsilon.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:04am

    @Cold War Vet
    Pleasure to serve with you, sir, both in history and in the present.

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 4:06am

    I thought the Bushes Prescott, George HW and George W were all in skull and Bones at Yale along with Bush’s cousin John Kerry. Come to think of it what are the odds that both presidential candidates in 2004 would be cousins and members of the same secret society at Yale?

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:20am

      Tell me sir, what brand of tinfoil do you find makes the best cap for reflecting the CIA spy beams?

      Report Post » TheGreyPiper  
    • Bhaub
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:24am

      You should ask Beck that. He‘s the expert on ’em. ;)

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 3:30am

    Stupid nonsense that has nothing to do with the “Bushes” what-so-ever, because it has been decades since any “Bush” has been a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

    Any intelligent woman, of any race or culture, can succeed in today’s World if she has the drive and ambition to do so. Of course, women have to step out of the culture that they need a man to help them make it the World, or a man to take care of them.

    Oprah Winfrey is the poster girl for a woman “making it” on her own. She may be a Diva now, but she has earned Diva status by decades of hard work and determination.

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    • Bhaub
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:23am

      Then you probably agree that what the frat members were doing was incredibly stupid and sexist, right?

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  • smak
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:51am

    @mossbrain
    “the Ivy League university has a sexually hostile environment and failed to adequately respond to sexual harassment concerns.” Ha what a laugh, probably no worse than bawdy limericks and they call this sexual harassment. Again, what a laugh.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    You’re wife is a slut. So is your daughter.

    Just being ‘bawdy’!

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  • smak
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:35am

    @Headline; AP: Yale Suspends ‘Bushes’

    What the hell is a bushes’

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  • rinohater
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:29am

    http://patdollard.com/2011/05/obama-hesitated-%e2%80%93-panetta-issued-order-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/

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  • Cold War Vet
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:25am

    News flash to stupid liberals:

    You automatically assume that all Tea Partiers are fanatical fans of GW Bush?
    Or that we can be cleanly lumped in with “Republicans?”

    Not So, Pinheads.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:33am

      @cold war vet, inside out,bottom up,top down, that is all the are trying to achieve. but you are right, not all tea partiers or not all Texans are fanatical about bush either one of them. and i am one.

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    • TheLastDon
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:39pm

      In fact, I would say MOST tea party people are NOT fans of W. Bush. He was about as liberal a republican as you can get. There was almost nothing conservative about him except cutting taxes.

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  • JVL
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:21am

    pretty sure they are just doing this because of the girls being freshman. kind of like freshman at a highschool all get trash caned for example. i dont think that the need to say that bush attended in the frat. it is completly irrelavent and probobly just an excuse to smear him. i think its a good thing they got punished because they need to take responsibillity for their actions but suspending them for 5 years is insane. probobly did this because of the fact that bush was in that frat. and notice that they interview 2 girls and 1 guy. maybe should have interviewed 2 girls and 2 guys or just 1 girl and 1 guy for more fair and balanced reporting.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:03am

    You white liberal women defend the “rights” of women to dress like sluts, parade like sluts and you are offended when a group of young men, pledging a frat house, address you you like sluts.

    You liberal white women can longer have it both ways.It’s time for the men of this country to stop being laid back by the selfish, spolied brats now being bred in the scholls and universities of this country. These women never lifted a finger to help themselves or battle for anything. Now they want it all. They want to criticize men, seek the protection of the laws made by men and have men earn their livings so they can continue the charmed lives.

    Young white men, Stand up! Dump white liberal sluts. SHout them down in the streets and in your class rooms. They have nothing more to offer you than the commonest girl from the least background They will use you for their own purposes, get pregnat and ruin your lives.

    Look for women with principals. FInd women who appreciate you, who appreciate this country. Find women who have their own character, not the one that come from a jar of perfumed exfoliant.

    “Deek,” the frat house, may be unwelcome at Yale, but you guys are welcome at my house anytime.

    (BYOB)

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    • Bhaub
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:21am

      “Look for women with principals.”

      Are you advocating underage sexual activity? You should be ashamed!

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  • Abitaman
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:59am

    Another example of the Yale administration living in their own echo chamber. For those of us outside of that chamber, the Yale administration looks silly and reactionary — but for the fact that they appear to be working to destroy or cripple one of the institutions of Yale…since 1844.

    And for what? Violence? Treason? Sending the med school cadavers to the alumni dinner? No, for provocative words chanted/sung/yelled by 18-22 year olds in public without credible threats to anyone. No need to defend their words because the Yale DKEs and DKE (inter)national fraternity leadership apologized to those offended, for the students’ actions on the evening in question, and addressed the excesses internally (but with the Yale administration aware of the internal actions by DKE).

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:41am

    What would the little bug-eyed girl had said if it was a fraternity of latinos shouting about racism directed toward illeagal aliens? What would little bug-eyes comments have been if the march was held by lesbians, screaming for their rights? How would the bug-eyed girls comments have changed if code pink were trashing a frat house or shouting at a symposium featuring a conservative speaker? I wonder what bug-eyes comments would have been had she been interviewed about the slut marches?

    I’m getting pretty damned sick and tired of the moral high ground held by liberal white women. I am sick of white men being portrayed as racists, rapists and idiots.

    You know, Miss bug eye, a lot have men have died, most of them white, so that you can show your ignorant, painted, dishonest arrogant face on the street. You ingratiful spoiled brat.

    If the Muslims don’t put your ugly face in a burka, I hope the frat house does.

    These are young men, these are the men who will someday ensure you are free, these are men who will desing your future, who will protect your home and your piglets from enemies, foreign and domestic.

    You and the women like you deserved to be called sluts and you have earned the right to be treated like sluts. Get off the campus. Get out of this country. Go to Saudi Arabia, Mexico, or France you you brainless pig!

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:40am

      That was an absolutely beautiful post! I’m not joking. It NEEDED TO BE SAID. I’m one of those universally-hated white males, and a veteran, and I too am damned sick and tired of this crap.

      Thank You for this most excellent post!

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    • Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 7:09am

      Bravo! Posts like this give me hope.

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    • Bhaub
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:20am

      Posts like this make me hope Nuffsaid suffers from ED or sterility and cannot reproduce. :)

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    • TheLastDon
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:37pm

      I love this post with one exception. I doubt these men will be the ones protecting this country. Yale is a place filled with ultra-liberal people these days and those aren’t the types that do the dying for our freedoms. They are the type that tries to take our freedoms away.

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  • Stand_4_Something
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:41am

    Keep digging…you‘ll find that is what All these Frat’s and Sororities do…diminish people. That is Why I never joined one 25 or so odd years ago- nothing’s changed and nothing will, no matter how many laws they pass. Come soon Lord Jesus!

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    • JGraham III
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Hmmm…I found Jesus Christ while I was in a fraternity at college. So did my brother and a lot of others. Never doubt the power of God, even when involved in some ‘stupid’ fraternity. That said, I don’t think that knowing what I do today and believing what I do, that I would involve myself in a fraternity…

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:35am

    “the Ivy League university has a sexually hostile environment and failed to adequately respond to sexual harassment concerns.” Ha what a laugh, probably no worse than bawdy limericks and they call this sexual harassment. Again, what a laugh.

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  • ChevalierdeJohnstone
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:35am

    So a “slut walk” is feminist but saying you love sluts is sexist?

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    • american1st
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:07am

      lmao….. liberal thinking never fails to amaze…

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    • thebarbarian
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 3:59am

      libs think? i did’nt know that was possible. theyall act like parrots that have had lobotomies. parrots have problem solving skills . way ahead of even the smartest lib.

      P.S. of course it’s Bushes fault… yea right.

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    • just the facts
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:49am

      We need to give credit where credit is do.

      “….. it depends on what is……is”

      William Jefferson Clinton

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  • seon
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:22am

    Think about this: Bush had to chant similar things. I wonder what Occult rituals the so called Christian practiced.

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:30am

      I can’t imagine. But it HAS to be more inspired than the vapid drool sputtering from the lips of terrorist-loving, HAMAS-loving, Jew-Hating, America-hating commie wanna-be liberals. And illiterate/semi-literate generation “Y” millennials and Obama voters.

      Get some ethics.

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:15am

      It’s a college frat, dimbulb. Not a coven.

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    • OldEli
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:08am

      Your comment is moronic. I was there with G at DKE. No such comments were made. Try speaking from knowledge instead of stupidity.

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    • DSN397
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:53am

      Why don’t you think about it, as obviously you haven’t yet.

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    • TheLastDon
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:34pm

      So now it‘s Bush’s fault AND Christianity’s fault? First of all, I have 0 knowledge what that frat made their pledges do back then and neither do you so it’s pretty stupid to comment like you do know. Secondly, Bush was NOT a Christian when he was in college so your Christianity slam is even more moronic than your slam on what Bush may or may have not said.

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  • drattastic
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:18am

    The real question is can the media make this a positive for obama by evoking Bush in a negative light.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:00am

      I volunteer to teach reading to many Yale students. Usually juniors and seniors. Could have sworn I saw GWB, GHWB, Bill BJ Clinton, chasing Hillary down Whitney Ave. trying to be the lucky guy that scored Hil’s thong for the Pantyraid Prize. Just Kidding, It was just Bill and Hill, the Bush’s were not there

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  • needanotherReagan
    Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:16am

    It‘s Bush’s fault.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:25am

      chanted “no means yes” on campus last fall
      —–
      Oh c’mon,thats not even thecomplete chant !

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:52am

      What did BO chant when he was in Indonesian schools??

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 2:06am

      banjarmon
      What did BO chant when he was in Indonesian schools??
      ——————
      “ allahu akbar ”
      “ death to America ”
      ” hoose my daddy ? “

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    • smak
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:15am

      @the iceman
      Funny how neither Bush has anything to do with this story what-so-ever yet the AP not only puts it in the story, but puts it in the headline as well.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Blaze wrote the headline.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:59am

      smak
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 5:15am
      @the iceman
      Funny how neither Bush has anything to do with this story what-so-ever yet the AP not only puts it in the story, but puts it in the headline as well.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Blaze wrote the headline.

      __________________________

      The Blaze should be ashamed!! The original story said 5 US Presidents not the Bushes. W didn’t do it!!

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    • onegodinkansas
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 8:59am

      That’s it! I’ve had it! I will not ever vote for W again! Thank you, AP for showing me the light.

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    • 1proudAmerican
      Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:56am

      @Cheezwiz

      lmao

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