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Report: Naked Party At Yale University Prompts Sexual Assault Investigation

March 4, 2011 11:18 AM
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A naked party at Yale may have crossed the line from salacious fun and into sexual assault and hazing, according to a report.

The Yale Daily News reports the Yale Police Department is looking into the party after several attendees were taken to Yale-New Haven hospital.

Yale Police Chief Ronnell A. Higgins notified the campus police “received information about a possible sexual assault involving undergraduates” attending an off-campus party on February 19.

The party in question was reportedly thrown by the Pundits, Yale’s private society prank group. Some 50 people attended the invitation-only function, according to the report.

While attendees arrived in costume, they were told to disrobe halfway through the party, witnesses told the Yale Daily News.

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Yale officials are examining whether the party – in which underage students were also reportedly drinking – amounted to a form of hazing. Attendees were reportedly told that the party was part of the ritual to potentially join the Pundits group.

After the attendees disrobed, several of them were forced to kiss each other by members of the Pundits, according to the allegations cited in the report. One male attendee reportedly had a penis forcibly pushed against his face.

The events are still under investigation.

At least one of the attendees seemed to think the party was nothing more than usual, rowdy, college hijinks, according to the report.

Does this amount to college kids having fun, or is there something more serious going on here? Sound off in our comments section.

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  • Tyrone

    Wow…..what a contrast…..at the Ivy Leagues, liberal elitist morons cavort in depravity, education and ethics be damned……..at BYU, they can one of their best basketball players for consensual sex with his girlfriend because he violated their code of ethics….I may not be Mormon, but hats off to BYU
    So glad my daughters decided against the Ivy Leagues and went to schools with apparent ethics and educational values.

    • hoozierr

      1/2 the BYU football team has admitted privately to also vilating the rules – wiill BYU man up and decimate thier cash cow?

      • doogles

        Hoozierr – you obviously have a short term memory. Last year the leading rusher in BYU football history, Harvey Unga, left because of honor code violations. A simple google search would have helped you avoid looking ignorant and biased…..just sayin.

    • John Knight

      Probably because she was white

    • Ystudent

      The actions of 12 members of one of Yale’s secret societies at an off-campus party involving 50 people do not reflect the ethics or educational values of the student body as a whole. In fact, as a member of that student body, I can assure you that I am not alone in thinking that this behavior is deplorable. Likewise, to think that this is a reflection of the quality of education is outrageous. Yale’s world renown researches, faculty, and resources have nothing to do with a naked party. On the topic of BYU’s enlightened code of ethics, the school is also known for ostracizing students who drink caffeinated beverages, watch rated R movies, or fail to attend church 90% of the time. My point being – no school is perfect, but to deny the advantages of a Yale education because of this incident is silly.

  • Rick

    Gays at Yale, Harvard, etc? Anyone surprised?

  • marc

    What an uptight bunch that can’t have a good time of any kind at just another college party. So what’s the big deal? College students in canada and usa try the high jump every so often, nobody gets “hurt”. Just check out any spring break location and you will see and hear guys trying whatever it is they want……duh! Either they like it or they don’t.

    • Hank

      Seems sort of Obvious, MARC likes it!

  • Katie

    Someone else said it, but I’ll say it again….there is no moral compass at Yale. And the vast majority of today’s college and universities. Narcissists make headlines, hazing practices are spectator sport, and young men and women are degraded—for the jollies of the perverted, immoral punks who tried to be cool.
    They were nothing more than debased, self-centered jerks. I bet the lot of them were educated in public schools

    • InternetSavage

      @Katie You couldn’t be more right.

      • Hank

        Also Obvious, the Management and facilty at Yale don’t care what we think of them and their INSTITUTION!!

    • A/L

      Written like an undergraduate who thinks she’s a journalist. Your argument is incomprehensible. Wait another 15 years before you try to opine, novice.

  • Billy the Kidder

    “One male attendee reportedly had a pen1s forcibly pushed against his face.”

    Outrageous!

    Oh well. Tell the poor fellow that it’ll likely be gone by morning. These conditions usually are except in the severest of cases!

    • A.J

      Right. Seriously: would we care if it were a foot crushed against his face? Don’t flatter yourself by believing this is sexual assault.

  • some guy

    Now these are the real teabaggers.

  • Kevin

    Hay female censors – Enjoy your special rights while they last………….

  • Itzik

    This was predicted years ago:
    God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley

    • Lone Ranger

      These are young folks having fun…admittedly, ribald fun, but fun none the less. If someone was offended they should have just left.

      • Bullies deserve beatings

        Or better yet beat the punks doing the hazing to within one inch of their ugly little lives. Beat a couple of these punk bullies half to death and the word will get around and the disgusting bullying will stop once and for all.

  • Bob Tarasiak

    Yale was founded upon Christian/Biblical principles, yet today the immorality is out of control, there is no moral compass and no study of biblical principles as the Bible was the main study book in the beginning of the School! Shame on those who do not care!

    • Charished

      Nudity begets sexual promiscuity. Peer pressure to follow others for fear of ostracizing Reminds me of hitler and fear to stand out and make a difference.

  • Bobmc

    It sounds like liberal morons at work!!

  • Verheek

    I can’t believe some of the comments on here. “If you don’t like it don’t go?” Is that the coverall du jour for anything someone finds disagreeable? Sheesh. People are responsible for their conduct under the law no matter what.

    • that one guy

      That’s because no one forced these people to go, stay or strip. College is a place of learning. These kids just learned they have no spine. Now they can grow one.

  • erick l

    If you dont like it – dont go.

    Typical libs whining about “hazing” or “sexual harrasment”. If you dont like it you can always decline the invitation – if they want you to take your clothes off – leave.

  • Sexoholic

    Sounds like a great time. At least that school is good for something

  • mlite9

    I don’t know what’s more troubling – the fact that this sort of thing is condoned at a (formerly) prestigious Ivy League school, or that the collective intelligence displayed here (apparently a common age group) will someday be running things. Yikes.

    • ystudent

      Formerly prestigious? Almost 30,000 high school seniors applied for admissions to Yale this past year. It’s faculty members are at the forefront of their fields, its students graduated in the top 10% of their respective high schools, its financial and academic resources are rivaled by just one institution. Leaders in government and policy (Last I checked, members on the Supreme Court, the past three Presidents, the current Secretary of State are all Yalies), entertainment, journalism and media, law, medicine, et cetera, claim it as their alma mater.

      • Judith of Bethulia

        sodom and gomorrah all over again.

  • Right Makes Might

    The REAL story here is in the comment section. With Americans this inarticulate, it’s no wonder the nation is in decline.

  • Slightly Educated

    The Yale man stands straight and tall while banging his buddy against a wall,
    Yet all this is done in jest, while the other fellow cleans up his mess.
    Now here at Yale we decree, that we are here just for degree so, if we at some time have some fun, get naked and go on the run, please don’t blame the lad on top because the guy on the bottom could not stop. The Dean says it’s all O.K. because the men at Yale are slightly gay. (Sir Walter Radcliffe 1778)

    • Tacitus7

      That should have been — A Yale man knew the difference between an iamb and a trochee. Sorry for the typo.

  • Kelley

    Nope, you thought really didn’t surprise anyone. Heard that all too often. Lacks originality Nice try. Better luck next time.

  • Mike Savage

    Yale guys are all a bunch of morons.

  • Andre

    No one out of Yale or Harvard in the last 20 years has done anything good for the US! don’t blame fox news for that. Blame slimy liberals!

  • Mike Hunt

    This article is useless without pictures!

    • hayduke ’70

      good point.

  • Tom Bosley

    You’re a loser.

  • Fred C. Dobbs

    This is just part of growing up in LEFTIST LIBERAL academia.

    • WFMN

      SOUNDS MESSED UP;; BUT WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON WITH BANKS/ AND BUSINESS SEEMS TO SHOW THERE ARE ALLREADY IDIOTS THERE PROBABLY JU7ST AS BAD OR WORSE;;;TIME WILL TELL;;

    • SHELTON

      i THOUGHT YOU DIED IN THE SERRIAS!

  • PatrickP

    These are the people who will be running our banks and corporations and sitting in state houses and on Capitol Hill. Lovely.

  • theJackal

    Sounds like their name should be the D-bags instead of the ‘Pundits’. Liberals are such losers.

    • Wynn Donofrio

      Totally agree I wouldn’t let my dog more or less my child go to those liberal elite colleges.

  • PIKE BISHOP JR.

    OH MY NIPPLES ARE GETTING ERECT..OUCH!

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