Sex Week at Yale
Senate probing new allegation of misconduct against Senate probing new allegation of misconduct & will have open bar at the hearings against Kavanaugh
WASHINGTON —The Senate Judiciary Committee is inquiring about at least one additional allegation of misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a letter obtained by NBC News and multiple people familiar with the process.
Republican Senate investigators asked Kavanaugh about the new complaint, NBC News has learned, during a phone call on Tuesday between Kavanaugh and committee staff. Sources told NBC News that Kavanaugh denied the allegation in the letter during the call and a spokesman for the committee declined to comment.
A Republican aide on the committee said the conversation took place shortly after noon. While Republican staff posed questions to Kavanaugh, their Democratic counterparts were also on the call but did not ask any questions.
According to an anonymous complaint sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Kavanaugh physically assaulted a woman he socialized with in the Washington, D.C. area in 1998 while he was inebriated.
The sender of the complaint described an evening involving her own daughter, Kavanaugh and several friends in 1998.
"When they left the bar (under the influence of alcohol) they were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh, shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually."
"There were at least four witnesses including my daughter." The writer of the letter provided no names but said the alleged victim was still traumatized and had decide to remain anonymous herself.
A Democratic source said the minority wasn't satisfied by the Republicans' questions about the incident during the call, calling them cursory, and believed it should be investigated more deeply.
NBC News reached out to the White House for comment.
Kavanaugh, a federal judge who was nominated to the Supreme Court on July 9th, has staunchly denied three public allegations from three women alleging sexual misconduct.
On Wednesday, President Trump said he could consider withdrawing Kavanaugh's nomination if he "thought he was guilty of something like this." Earlier Trump said the public accusations against Kavanaugh were false.
One of the accusers, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, is set to testify before the committee Thursday. She has said that in 1982, when she and Kavanaugh were in high school, he pinned her down while they were in a suburban home in Maryland, attempted to remove her clothing and put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream.
In a letter to the committee, Ford says she thought she would be killed and that he had attempted to rape her. She has also said that Mark Judge was a witness and participant in the alleged assault. Kavanaugh has said it is possible he may have met her but he denied the accusation.
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday would not say whether there were any additional information she was aware of, but added, "there are certain areas that I've been interested in. He could be perjuring himself because of his response to my question about whether he had ever" engaged in sexual misconduct "as an adult. He could have perjured himself."
A college classmate from Yale, Deborah Ramirez of Boulder, Colorado has accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself and humiliating her at a party when they were in school together. Kavanaugh has said this incident didn't occur.
On Wednesday, a third woman informed the Senate committee that she had been the victim of a gang rape in 1985 in which she says Kavanaugh was present. Julie Swetnick did not name Kavanaugh as the assailant. Kavanaugh called this allegation "ridiculous," and said he doesn't know her.
A spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) tells NBC News they will hold another phone call with Kavanaugh Wednesday to ask him about Swetnick's allegation. In two previous calls with Kavanaugh, he has denied allegations from Ford and Ramirez.
The calls are not under oath, but Kavanaugh will be reminded at the beginning of the call that lying to the Congress is against the law.
On Wednesday, President Trump said Wednesday he "cant tell" yet whether Kavanaugh's known accusers are "liars" because he's waiting to watch a hearing tomorrow. Trump admitted it's "possible" they could be "convincing."
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WASHINGTON —The Senate Judiciary Committee is inquiring about at least one additional allegation of misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a letter obtained by NBC News and multiple people familiar with the process.
Republican Senate investigators asked Kavanaugh about the new complaint, NBC News has learned, during a phone call on Tuesday between Kavanaugh and committee staff. Sources told NBC News that Kavanaugh denied the allegation in the letter during the call and a spokesman for the committee declined to comment.
A Republican aide on the committee said the conversation took place shortly after noon. While Republican staff posed questions to Kavanaugh, their Democratic counterparts were also on the call but did not ask any questions.
According to an anonymous complaint sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Kavanaugh physically assaulted a woman he socialized with in the Washington, D.C. area in 1998 while he was inebriated.
The sender of the complaint described an evening involving her own daughter, Kavanaugh and several friends in 1998.
"When they left the bar (under the influence of alcohol) they were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh, shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually."
"There were at least four witnesses including my daughter." The writer of the letter provided no names but said the alleged victim was still traumatized and had decide to remain anonymous herself.
A Democratic source said the minority wasn't satisfied by the Republicans' questions about the incident during the call, calling them cursory, and believed it should be investigated more deeply.
NBC News reached out to the White House for comment.
Kavanaugh, a federal judge who was nominated to the Supreme Court on July 9th, has staunchly denied three public allegations from three women alleging sexual misconduct.
On Wednesday, President Trump said he could consider withdrawing Kavanaugh's nomination if he "thought he was guilty of something like this." Earlier Trump said the public accusations against Kavanaugh were false.
One of the accusers, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, is set to testify before the committee Thursday. She has said that in 1982, when she and Kavanaugh were in high school, he pinned her down while they were in a suburban home in Maryland, attempted to remove her clothing and put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream.
In a letter to the committee, Ford says she thought she would be killed and that he had attempted to rape her. She has also said that Mark Judge was a witness and participant in the alleged assault. Kavanaugh has said it is possible he may have met her but he denied the accusation.
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday would not say whether there were any additional information she was aware of, but added, "there are certain areas that I've been interested in. He could be perjuring himself because of his response to my question about whether he had ever" engaged in sexual misconduct "as an adult. He could have perjured himself."
A college classmate from Yale, Deborah Ramirez of Boulder, Colorado has accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself and humiliating her at a party when they were in school together. Kavanaugh has said this incident didn't occur.
On Wednesday, a third woman informed the Senate committee that she had been the victim of a gang rape in 1985 in which she says Kavanaugh was present. Julie Swetnick did not name Kavanaugh as the assailant. Kavanaugh called this allegation "ridiculous," and said he doesn't know her.
A spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) tells NBC News they will hold another phone call with Kavanaugh Wednesday to ask him about Swetnick's allegation. In two previous calls with Kavanaugh, he has denied allegations from Ford and Ramirez.
The calls are not under oath, but Kavanaugh will be reminded at the beginning of the call that lying to the Congress is against the law.
On Wednesday, President Trump said Wednesday he "cant tell" yet whether Kavanaugh's known accusers are "liars" because he's waiting to watch a hearing tomorrow. Trump admitted it's "possible" they could be "convincing."
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Organized originally in 2002 by then Yale College students Eric Rubenstein and Jacqueline Farber, Sex Week at Yale is a biennial event described on its website as "an interdisciplinary sex education program designed to pique students’ interest through creative, interactive, and exciting programming." Sex Week at Yale explores love, sex, intimacy and relationships by focusing on how sexuality is manifested in America, helping students to reconcile these issues in their own lives. The week gives students access to professionals both in the classroom and during informal events, including debates, seminars, fashion shows, concerts, and discussions. The events provide students the opportunity to learn about love, sex, intimacy, and relationships from experienced professionals who deal with these issues every day in their professional lives.
Contents
History
In 2002, Eric Rubens approached Jacqueline Farber, head of Student Health Education division of Yale Health Services, which conducted the sexual health orientations for freshmen and which had previously given sexual health talks around Valentine's Day, with the idea of hosting a campus-wide event including guest speakers and other sexual health events. With the Student Health Education's support, other groups, such as the Women's Center and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Co-op, agreed to co-sponsor the project, and Sex Week at Yale was born.[1] The event was composed of talks by a number of Yale professors, a series of talks by Yale's peer health educators, a film festival and a celebrity panel entitled "Sex and Entertainment".
Sex Week at Yale in its current form takes a multi-disciplinary approach, enlisting a diversity of speakers from company executives, to sex therapists, to professors, clergy, adult film stars, and everyone in between.
In February, 2012, Sex Week was organized by an Executive Board of Directors for the first time in its ten-year history. Directors included seniors Allie Bauer, Paul Holmes, Tatiana Lam, and Courtney Peters and juniors Connie Cho, Alberto Navarro, Anna North, and Leeron Tur-Kaspa. The ten-day program contained over fifty events, all of which were funded by grassroots efforts given the newly imposed restriction on corporate sponsorship.
Sex Week at Yale: The Magazine
In February 2006, nearly 25,000 copies of “Sex Week at Yale: The Magazine” were distributed among 18 of the country’s best-known universities, including all schools in the Ivy League.[2]
Among the magazine's notable contributors included Jim Griffiths, President of the Playboy Entertainment Group, John Gray, Ph.D., author of “Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus” and columnists from such publications as Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health and Maxim.
Awards and recognition
Reaction
In 2011, Yale alumnus Nathan Harden published Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad. The book was highly critical of Sex Week at Yale, and its title harkened to the criticism of Yale that William F. Buckley, Jr. made in 1951 with his book God and Man at Yale.[7]
In the fall of 2011, a group of Yale students formed an organization called Undergraduates for a Better Yale College (UBCY), to "...advocate for a better sexual culture, one grounded in genuine respect and self-giving love; to oppose campus attitudes and events that offer a degrading and trivializing vision of sexuality... ."[8] In September 2011, UBCY petitioned the Yale administration to deny Sex Week at Yale support, including the use of classrooms and other university facilities.[9] In the February 2012, UBCY hosted its own "True Love Week," with events focusing on chastity, love, marriage, and what it sees as the faults of Yale's sexual culture.[8]
Other Sex Weeks
Events called Sex Week have also been held at:
- University of Maryland[10][11]
- Harvard University[12][13]
- University of Tennessee Knoxville[14][15][16][17]‒The organizers, Sex Week UTK 2014, have presented some events at times other than during Sex Week, such as a screening of RENT in January and February, 2014.[18]
- University of North Carolina Charlotte[19][20]
- Brown University[21][22]
- University of Calgary[23]
- Lafayette College[24]
- Emory University[25][26]
- University of Chicago[27]
- Northwestern University[22]
- University of Kentucky[22]
- University of Michigan[28]
- Northeastern University
Safer Sex Weeks were held at University of Minnesota in February 2014[29] and at Oberlin College in November 2013.[30] The Campus Health Service at Arizona State University held a SexTalk week in February 2013.[31]
Outside the U.S.
- The University Health Centre of the University of the West Indies, Mona presented a Safer Sex Week on February 12–18, 2012, emphasizing, on different days, the themes of Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condomize.[32]
References
- ^ Rosenbaum, Ron (January–February 2003). "Sex Week at Yale". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "TheDartmouth.com - Yale University magazine to debut at Dartmouth".
- ^ Collegiate Network - Members - 2004 Campus Outrage Awards Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Collegiate Network - Members - 2004 Campus Outrage Awards Archived 2006-04-08 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Sexual Health on College Campuses". www.bestplaces.net.
- ^ Yale Daily News - Univ. earns clean bill of sexual health Archived 2008-02-15 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Sex and God (and pretentiousness) at Yale".
- ^ a b "Undergraduates for a Better Yale College". Retrieved 2014-03-04.
- ^ Aboutorabi, Bijan; Andino, Eduardo; Marin, Isabel (September 20, 2011). "ABOUTORABI, ANDINO AND MARIN: Change the climate, end Sex Week". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
- ^ "Sex Week: A Fearless Idea". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ deVise, Daniel. "Should 'Sex Week' worry college leaders?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Sex Week at Harvard". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ Quenqua, Douglas (April 16, 2012). "On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Sex Week UT". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ Sisk, Chas (February 28, 2014). "TN lawmakers take another shot at Sex Week". WBIR. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ Timpf, Katherine (January 28, 2014). "Public university Sex Week to teach masturbation, when orgasms are a 'political act'". Campus Reform. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ Cobb, David (February 23, 2014). "Anti-Sex Week bill would affect UTC, too". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "RENT presented by Sex Week UTK 2014". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Sex Week UNC Charlotte". Sex Week UNC Charlotte. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
- ^ "UNC-Charlotte, Planned Parenthood sponsor new 'Sex Week'". Campus Reform. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
- ^ "Brown Sex Week 2013". Archived from the original on 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ a b c Brooks, Margaret (August 29, 2010). "'Sex Week' Should Arouse Caution Most of All". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Sex Week". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Lafayette College Sex Week 2014/". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Our Opinion: Let's Talk About Sex (Week)". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ Sims, Amelia (December 2, 2013). "Symposium: Sexuality and Sex Week". Intercollegiate Review. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Sex Week University Chicago". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Why is Sex Week on the Dirty Dozen List?". Morality in Media. Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Safer Sex Week". Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Oberlin Sexual Information Center Safer Sex Week 2013". Archived from the original on 2014-03-02. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ Simon, Sarah-Jayne (February 7, 2013). "SexTalk week educates students about safe sex, abstinence and birth control". The Daily Wildcat. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Safer Sex Week: TEK charge". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
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