Members of the club, founded by American student Taylor Scott Wilson at Edinburgh University – also spoke about raping feminists
A club of toff university students laughed about going on a 'raping trip' during a US-style frat club meeting at a top British university.
Members of the club, founded by American student Taylor Scott Wilson at Edinburgh University – also spoke about raping feminists.
The branch of the men-only fraternity at Edinburgh University faces punishment by uni bosses.
Now they face a probe by uni bosses after the fraternity’s sickening minutes were leaked, the Daily Record reports.
An ex-member of Delta Kappa Epsilon said: “They’re massive d**ks, which is why I left. They probably did say all that stuff.
“There’s a couple of them that judge people for meaningless and pointless things – where you come from, who you are.
“The more they said it, the more you’d think they’re just terrible people.”
He told the university’s student newspaper The Tab: “I can’t emphasise how strange it was – it was masonic. I’m so glad I left.”
The 170-year-old society claim to have 44,000 “brothers” across North America.
Five former US presidents were members, including George Bush and his son.
According to the minutes, Nick Debany, 20, from Greenwich, Connecticut, suggested a paintball match against the Feminist Society to “calm the waters”.
When his decision was vetoed by then frat president and founding member Scott Wilson, Debany responded: “How are we going to rape them?”
Ben Zahler from Kent, Connecticut, said: “Let’s go to Montenegro, for a raping trip.”
Scott Wilson, from Atlanta, Georgia, brought up the subject of transgender people.
Members of the society decided trans people “agreed to be pedantic” when discussing the Feminist Society’s “point about transgenders”. Zahler later joked about a friend of his allegedly being raped by a female member of the Student Association.
A source within the society revealed that at another meeting, members joked about using their “Phone-a-DEKE” service – which would offer to walk students home – to take advantage of drunk and vulnerable women.
This comment was not recorded in the minutes.
Edinburgh University Student Association’s Eve Livingston said the fraternity were not members of the association.
Eve said: “We were alerted to the existence of minutes from a Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity meeting which detailed discussions of rape threats, transphobia and other unacceptable content.
“We and NUS Scotland have publicly condemned them in the past, commenting on the dangerous and misogynistic nature of fraternities, who have no place in our student community.
“We are shocked and appalled by the contents of the leaked minutes and our priority is absolutely the welfare and safety of our students. I have raised the issue with the university secretary as a breach of the code of student conduct and a potential criminal offence.
“Comments like those in the leaked minutes are in breach of EUSA policy against sexual harassment and ‘lad banter’ but clearly constitute unacceptable behaviour by any standard.
“We will not stand for them.”
Scott Wilson of DKE, an arm of the infamous Yale fraternityScott Wilson of DKE, an arm of the infamous Yale fraternity
The uni’s Feminist Society issued an appeal on Facebook for the fraternity to be punished.
The message said: “We hope the university will join us in standing up against sexism and take disciplinary action against students involved in the frat.
“We plan to take further action on this issue to make sure the frat cannot continue to operate on this campus.”
At least one of the meetings took place on university property – in the Lorimer Room in Old College. The minutes contain details of DKE meetings between September 2013 and May 2014.
An Edinburgh University spokeswoman said: “We are treating this matter extremely seriously.
“The university is committed to promoting a positive culture for working and studying, in which all members of the university’s community treat each other with dignity and respect.
“Accordingly, a senior member of staff has been appointed to investigate the allegations further.”
Scott Wilson, who has since left the group and the university, said in February that he intended to distance the Scottish chapter from the “debauchery” associated with their US brothers.
He said their members would be made up of “gentlemen, scholars and jolly good fellows” doing work for charity.
