Wow - does anyone know what type of material was posted? Article says it was racist and misogynistic. Why was the entire team suspended instead of just the persons who posted?
Wow - first Harvard, then Columbia, Amherst and now Princeton with these same types of incidents involving sports teams this year. You would think these kids would learn from the consequences at the other schools
Press release from Princeton itself: https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S48/18/38A99/
To be clear, which the Washington post was not, the swim/dive team’s schedule was suspended, not the members of the team. Although further action might be coming, I would imagine.
Jock culture permits misogyny, news at 11.
Why is it always the mens teams being jerks?
As a male, I feel that I can say this without being un-PC: One can remove “s teams” from the above sentence and still have an accurate sentence.
Generational, institutionalized, socialized patriarchy?
Because “boys will be boys” is still an acceptable excuse from everything to toddlers acting out to rape.
Curious about thought process behind punishing the team for the actions of some (presumably not all) team members. Not saying it’s right or wrong - just thinking through how and why the administrators made the decision they did.
Where’s the “thinking through” part?
I’m just trying to understand the behind-the-scenes of why the administration decided to punish the whole team without naming names instead of singling out the particular bad actors. It’s clear to me why the behavior was unacceptable!
Nobody here can answer that question, @GnocchiB
My guess? And it is just that- a total and complete guess- it says they suspended “the rest of” the team so they probably figured out that this wasn’t a one-off sort of thing. Instead, it was a team culture and one that was allowed to fester for a long time. The fact that it was allowed to go on and no one piped up says implicitly or explicitly that this is acceptable. The school said “uh… no.” and good for then.
Again, PURE guess.
ETA: Also:
Again, probably against school policies and probably not just one or two “bad actors.”