We three, Anna McNeil, Ry Walker, and Ellie Singer are all current undergraduate students at Yale University, and we have all experienced sexual assault and harassment at Yale’s all-male fraternities. We are not alone. We believe many female and non-binary students have been sexually assaulted, groped, grabbed, grinded up against, verbally harassed, leered at, and denied admission based on their appearance at Yale fraternities.
As a first step, Yale must acknowledge this problem. We are therefore asking Yale students and alumni to speak up.
If you have experienced — or if you have witnessed someone else experiencing — sexual harassment or sexual assault at a Yale fraternity, please consider signing on to the following statement*: