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Yale Alumni Magazine

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, 

Regarding Nicole Allen's article Confusion and Silence in the July /August edition of YAM, the problem suffers from Ivory Tower syndrome.  When Ms. Allen records a female Yale student saying that "when she learned that an athlete she knew was telling his teammates. . . that he's seen her having sex on the floor of his common room, and that her ' vagina was a petri dish that was growing STD's from all the people I'd hooked up with,' " Ms. Allen is not recording an instance of a female student being sexually harassed; she is recording an instance of a female student being slandered. 


Slander does not need a university committee to ponder its intention. It has remedy in the courts: a lawsuit. 

Paul D. Keane

M. Div. '80