Nobody said the UBYC makes policy. Simply that sex week being banned is not their doing in any way/shape/form, so we should stop presenting this issue as though its some sort of success of the UBYC.

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1. The UBYC has sixteen members, only two of whom are in the suite that the writer is speaking of, neither of whom is full white (one is half Persian, the other is Latino). Moreover, more than 200 people have signed the UBYC petition. To speak as though UBYC represents the complaints of just these “five conservative dudes” and no one else is therefore a malicious distortion of fact.

2. The YDN has not given UBYC an “unlimited” platform. Advocates for the UBYC have written columns in the YDN and other people have rebutted them. This is a common practice at Yale and should not serve as the basis for condemning the YDN. The alternative to allowing members of UBYC to voice their opinions would be to expect the YDN to censor them, something both impossible and undesirable in an academic community that, at least theoretically, allows its students to speak their minds.

3. If the op-eds are vomit-inducing, you probably shouldn’t read them every day.

4. The UBYC does not actually make university policy, it simply is making a suggestion as to how the university should change its policy. As such, it is no different from any other group, e.g. the Responsible Endowment Project, which, lacking influence itself, seeks to persuade the Yale administration to change its ways. Again, asserting that the UBYC should not be allowed to attempt to influence policy is tantamount to asserting that the University should proactively censor them and prohibit them from expressing their beliefs, which is unacceptable in a university setting.

5. That you feel “unsafe as a queer, sex-positive woman” makes no sense, given that (a) the UBYC has not spoken on the subject of homosexuality and (b) the UBYC is merely recommending that the University cancel Sex Week, which in no way should make anybody feel “unsafe.” Nice try on the victim card, though.

6. 4 of 6 of the members of the suite you are speaking of are on financial aid, so I wouldn’t be so quick to brand them as “privileged.”

As to you making out with your lady friend in public to annoy people who have views that you disagree with, all I can say is that that is extraordinarily juvenile and is not befitting of a thinking, mature adult.

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The Better Yale College folk take sexually-charged abstinence to a paternalistic place that even Edward Cullen didn’t penetrate.

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PS, every time my ladyfriend and I see one of the UBYC members, we’ve made sure to make out graphically in their line of vision.

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For more full information on the situation at Yale, please read this YDN article by the Executive Directors for Sex Week at Yale: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/nov/14/cho-and-holmes-lets-talk-about-sex/

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