Harvard men's soccer's 2012 lewd "scouting report" draws fire
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University is condemning a sexually explicit document that was circulated among its 2012 men’s soccer team that rated the attractiveness of and made lewd references about members of the women’s soccer team.
Details of it surfaced this week in the school’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. The paper reports that men called the nine-page document their “scouting report.” It included photos and sexual comments about individual recruits to the women’s team.
The document was shared among the men’s team on a website that could be accessed by the public until recently. The author refers to a similar report the year before.
Harvard Athletics Director Bob Scalise says he’s deeply upset by the remarks, adding that his department has zero tolerance for that kind of behavior.
Scalise said he had not seen the document until the Crimson brought it to his attention, and that there could be one or many authors.
The Crimson reports that whoever wrote the report “individually evaluated each female recruit, assigning them numerical scores and writing paragraph-long assessments of the women. The document also included photographs of each woman, most of which, the author wrote, were culled from Facebook or the Internet.”
Additionally, the Crimson writes that “each woman was assigned a hypothetical sexual ‘position’ in addition to her position on the soccer field.”