Harvard University has revoked its acceptance of at least 10 applicants to its incoming freshman class after learning the group traded sexually explicit and sometimes racist images in a private online message group, the student newspaper reported. A university spokesperson declined on Monday to comment on Sunday's Harvard Crimson report, which cites multiple members of the incoming class, including one unnamed prospective who said his admission offer had been withdrawn. The messages, exchanged on a private Facebook group, at times joked about sexual assault, ethnic groups and the Holocaust, and referred to child abuse as sexually arousing. University officials notified the students in April that their admission offers had been revoked, the Crimson said. "We do not comment publicly on the admissions status of individual applicants," Harvard spokeswoman Rachael Dane said in an email.

Source: CBC News June 05, 2017 17:17 UTC