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Harvard does the right thing and cancels the rest of men’s soccer season

The Harvard men’s soccer team has had the rest of their season canceled according to a report in the Harvard Crimson.

The Crimson first reported that the men’s soccer team had produced sexually explicit “scouting reports” on the physical attractiveness of female freshmen recruits. The original report cited a nine-page document sent out over the group’s email list in 2012 that included lewd and inappropriate remarks and rated women with numerical grades, along with the clear implication that this was a continuing tradition.

Harvard Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise originally responded to the matter by saying the handling of the document should be “an internal Harvard matter” and that “this is not a media thing.