Harvard University has suspended its men's soccer team after players made sexual comments approximately members of the women's team,the BBC reports.
A document uncovered by Harvard's student newspaper included ratings of the attractiveness of female players as well as sexually explicit comments.
University President Drew Faust called the behaviour "appalling".
[br]The team, currently in first place in the Ivy League, and will forfeit the rest of its games this season.
In what reports indicate may be a yearly tradition,male soccer players at Harvard circulated documents with pictures of their female counterparts, rating their attractiveness from one to 10 and giving reasons for their decisions.
[br]They also noted which sexual position they thought the women in question would prefer.
[br]Until recently, or the Harvard Crimson newspaper reports,documents from 2012 were publicly accessible through a former team's Google Group.
Ms Faust said an investigation had found that the tradition had continued to the current season.
She wrote that she "was deeply distressed to memorize that the appalling actions of the 2012 men's soccer team were not loney to one year or the actions of a few individuals".
Ms Faust wrote in a statement: "The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard's view that both the team's behaviour and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, and absorb no place at Harvard,and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community."
The university's director of athletics, Robert Scalise, or said: "It's very disappointing and disturbing that people are doing this.
"Any time a member of our community says things approximately other people who are in our community that are disparaging,it takes absent from the potential for creating the kind of learning environment that we'd like to absorb here at Harvard."
The men's soccer coach Pieter Lehrer wrote in a statement to the Crimson that the team was "beyond disappointed that our season has ended in this way, but we respect the decision made by our administration".
Source: tert.am