Yale Admissions & Sexist Email Problem

Booklady
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:35:41 +0000

This kind of behavior is nothing new, it’s just that the delivery system is different. When I was an undergrad at Princeton (30+ years ago), during freshman week if women walked across a certain quad, guys in one of the upper floors of the dorm overlooking the quad would hold up numbers from 1-10 in the window. No university is exempt from boorish behavior on the part of its students, but now these things can unfortunately live on in cyberspace. While it would be nice to think that 30 years later these sorts of attitudes no longer exist in the hallowed Ivy halls, well…welcome to the real world.