USC Students Protest “Offensive” Fraternity Email

EXPOSITION PARK (KTLA) --          this memo, you will not only
Dozens of USC students walked      gain a greater understanding
out of class and staged a          of what it means to live, but
noisy protest to call              you will have embraced a
attention to a sexist email        lifestyle. However, in order
believed to have been posted       for this to happen you first
by a member of the Kappa           must know a couple key terms.
Sigma fraternity.                  Note: I will refer to females
The email, believed to have        as "targets". They aren't
been written by one of the         actual people like us men.
fraternity members, intended       Consequently, giving them a
to create some sort of list        certain name or distinction
to detail sexual encounters.       is pointless."
It  was supposed to be the         The author of the email
first in a series of emails        claims that women "aren't
called the "Gullet Report"         actual people like us men."
which was supposed to              He also refers to
"strengthen brotherhood and        unattractive women as "filth"
help pin-point sorostitues         and told his brothers that
more inclined the put-out."        "non-consent and rape are two
Members of Kappa Sigma             different things." He
refused to comment to KTLA         encouraged his readers to
about the email, which has         have sex with "middle eastern
now gone viral.                    targets" and provided names
USC students say they are          of women according to their
outraged by the email which        ethnicity.
spread through the campus          The email also asks members
like wildfire.                     to rate their conquests and
Lexi Marten told KTLA "I know      described certain kinds of
guys will talk, but to go to       women, such as a "loop 'n
the extreme of an email is         doop' which is "a target that
too much."                         is very easy to take down.
Daren Fitch told KTLA that he      All she needs is a good
doesn't think these actions        amount of liquor (loop) and
should reflect on all              she will be good to go."
fraternities at USC. "Most         The executive director of the
fraternities are not like          Kappa Sigma Fraternity,
that."                             Mitchell Wilson, told the
The protest was sponsored by       Daily Trojan:  "The content
students from the USC              [of the e-mail] is contrary
Coalition for a Safey Campus       to everything [Kappa Sigma
and Community, Women's             stands] for and we are not
Student Assembly and numerous      going to allow individuals to
other campus organizations.        attempt to tarnish our name
Here's a portion of the email:     in any form or fashion.... We
"I have come to write this         will pursue this as far as we
memo to you today to educate       can."
on the only life worth living,     "The Interfraternity Council
that of a Cocksman. A              vehemently condemns the
Cocksman is taught to live by      offensiveness of the recent
the two most applicable            viral email that has made
principles I know: The Pie         victims of all women,
and the Gullet. You may            individuals and chapters in
already be lost in trying to       USC's greek community," Pat
comprehend this logic. Do not      Lauer, Interfraternity
worry this is completely           President told KTLA.
understandable. By the end of      

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