The actions of the players in this situation may have been vulgar but it’s absurd to think this doesn’t happen at other schools all the time.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
Harvard Cancels Men’s Soccer Season After Finding Sexually Explicit ‘Reports’ Continued Through 2016
Harvard has cancelled the men’s soccer team’s season after an Office of General Counsel review found that the team continued to produce vulgar and explicit documents rating women on their perceived sexual appeal and physical appearance.
Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise wrote in an email to Harvard student athletes that he decided to cancel the rest of the team’s season because the “practice appears to be more widespread across the team and has continued beyond 2012, including in 2016.”
“As a direct result of what Harvard Athletics has learned, we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 men’s soccer season,” Scalise wrote. “The team will forfeit its remaining games and will decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year.”
Last week, The Crimson reported that the 2012 men’s soccer team created a “scouting report” of that year’s women’s soccer recruits, rating them numerically and assigning each a hypothetical sexual position. University President Drew G. Faust instructed OGC, Harvard’s team of lawyers, to “review” the matter.
“As I asked the OGC to undertake this, it had to be on a fairly short time frame because the season is proceeding apace,” Faust said in an interview Thursday. “I wanted a response that would be within the context of the team’s responsibilities representing Harvard and this athletic season.”
Hat tip to Jake Tapper:
Harvard cancels rest of men’s soccer season bc of discovery of custom teammates ranked the woman’s soccer players’ physical appearance,
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 4, 2016
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Isn’t this how Facebook got started? At Harvard too.
The blunder is putting it in writing.
At their age, they may still be trainable, and this may stand them in good stead someday.
(Well … Harvard … but hey, it’s possible …)
The blunder is being young men in a phony PC culture. Young men and women are obsessed with the attractiveness of the other sex. Denying it and creating a phony culture is absurd.
Soon we will have informants informing on non PC behavior and the media will report how heroic they are. I guess it’s worth putting up with this crap to get that piece of paper from Harvard assuring a high six or seven figure salary.