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While you were waiting in the bitter cold line for that free "FALE" shirt in November, our Yale compatriots rivals were debating whether a "Sissy" shirt should be printed...
Whoever thought a seemingly innocent Harvard-Yale shirt wouldn't be found offensive by so many people was wrong. Yes, it's the end of December, we've already claimed victory, and yet we're still talking about those shirts. Well, one shirt in particular...
After the Yale Freshman Class Council (FCC) announced this design as the winner of a class-wide vote, some concerns were raised by the Yale LGBT Cooperative about the derogatory use of the word "sissy." Then the administration was consulted and more voting took place, and the shirt design, as reported by the Yale Daily News on Nov. 19, was pulled. A boring H in a circle with a line through it would take its place...
...about a month after the YDN story, Adam L. H. Kissel '94, Director of the Individual Rights Defense Program at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), wrote a letter to Yale President Richard C. Levin, requesting assurance that the infringement upon students' right to speech would never happen again...
According to the YDN story, the pulling of the shirt was done at the urging of one of the deans whom the FCC had consulted. Kissel asked for a response by Jan. 12, 2010, the date of the Harvard-Yale hockey game...