Law Schools, Rudeness

The Yale Law Student With The Profane T-Shirt Speaks

It turns out that his accuser wasn't exactly a paragon of fashion virtue.

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Last week, we covered a silly little tempest in a teapot over a Yale law student who wore a t-shirt reading “F**k Forever” while at the Yale Club of New York. An older member of the club, who exchanged words with this student in the locker room over the shirt, wrote a letter of complaint to the club about “this sad decline in the atmosphere and spirit of the club.”

We don’t know the full circumstances surrounding the controversy. It’s not clear, for example, whether the YLS student wore this t-shirt just in the gym and locker room or whether he was walking around the club’s public areas so attired. We unfortunately don’t have cameras in the Yale Club locker room that would let us see these handsome, preppy young men removing their rep ties, peeling off their blue blazers, unbuttoning their oxfords, and shedding their khakis, before slipping into more comfortable workout gear.

But we do know a little more than we did last week about the incident. The Yale student in question shared the following details with the YLS list-serv:

I was the young man in the locker room wearing the contentious shirt that afternoon. In lieu of defending my actions, what I’d like to point out is that my interloper, a refined looking gentleman in his mid to upper 60s, conveniently omits from his letter the fact that he himself eventually walked out of the locker room in a fit of indignation wearing form-fitting bike shorts with a colorful image of Calvin sledding down a hill with Hobbes emblazoned across both of his butt cheeks.

Complaint dismissed because of the plaintiff’s unclean hands — or unclean bike shorts, as the case may be.

(If you enjoy watching very smart people debate very silly things, flip to the next page for collected messages about Shirtgate from the YLS list-serv.)

“Fuck Forever” Shirt Throws Yale Club Into Mannered Turmoil [Gawker]
Sex Pistols “Fuck Forever” T-Shirt [Full Breach 77]

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