"No" Still Means "Yes": The Failure of the "Non-Consent" Reform Movement in American Rape and Sexual Assault Law

John Decker, Peter G. Baroni

2011 · 24 citations · 0 references

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New Haven, Conn. Yale fraternity’s sexist chants A Yale University fraternity that counts both Bush presidents among its alumni has apologized after a video surfaced on YouTube showing prospective fraternity members marching through campus chanting obscenities in what a woman’s group called “an active call for sexual violence.” Pledges to Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE), which boasts “the maintenance of gentlemanly dignity” as one of its founding objectives, chanted phrases including “No means yes, yes means anal” during the campus march. DKE later publicly apologized in a forum arranged by