People walk near Memorial Church on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on March 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Harvard University canceled its men’s soccer season after learning that sexually explicit ‘scouting reports’ about the women’s soccer recruits continued through 2016. [Harvard men’s soccer team members sexually explicit ‘scouting report’ ranked female players]The ‘reports’ — explicit descriptions of female student-athletes gauging their attractiveness and speculating on sexual preferences — were made public by the student newspaper at a time when the culture around sexual assault and consent are issues of intense interest at Harvard and many other campuses nationally. Robert Scalise, the director of athletics, sent a message to student-athletes Thursday evening explaining that given the findings, saying, “we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 men’s soccer season. “We are these women,” they wrote, and,“We feel hopeless because men who are supposed to be our brothers degrade us like this.

Source: Washington Post November 04, 2016 02:28 UTC