September 2017
Trump administration formally rescinds the Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault.
December 2016
DKE President Luke Persichetti is suspended from campus.
May 2016
Yale lifts DKE suspension.
November 2014
Neighbors living next to DKE write to the city to complain about the two fraternities on the street. "...on repeated occasions, we have been asked to perform acts of oral sex by unknown members of these fraternities,” one letter read.
June 2011
The DKE national organization responds to the suspension from Yale, though it doesn’t additionally sanction the Yale chapter.
May 2011
Yale suspends DKE for five years. The frat can no longer host campus activities.
April 2011
The Obama administration issued a “Dear Colleague Letter” guiding colleges on the responsibility to adequately adjudicate complaints of sexual misconduct.
March 31, 2011
The Office for Civil Rights, part of the Department of Education, opens an investigation at Yale.
March 15, 2011
Sixteen current and former Yale students file a complaint with the Department of Education for violating Title IX by "failing to eliminate a hostile sexual environment” on campus.
October 2010
DKE brothers march pledges around campus chanting “No means yes, yes means anal,” “fucking sluts,” and “My name is Jack, I'm
a necrophiliac; I fuck dead women, and fill them with my semen.”
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DKE suspension
(2011–2016)