UPDATED: November 6, 2016, at 12:06 a.m. 
 
 The Harvard men’s cross country team produced yearly spreadsheets about members of the women’s team, sometimes writing “sexually explicit” comments about them, according to team correspondence obtained by The Crimson. 
 
 The team created the spreadsheets each year ahead of an annual dance with the women’s team. In the documents, the men guessed which women would invite certain men to the event. In certain spreadsheets, the men added comments about the women’s physical appearance. 
 
 Details about the men’s cross country team’s spreadsheets indicate that organized written evaluations of female athletes’ physical appearances have not been limited to the men’s soccer team. Last month, The Crimson published a story about the 2012 men’s soccer team, which produced an explicit document evaluating freshmen recruits on the women’s team on their perceived sexual appeal, prompting current and former members of the cross country team to discuss their own prior practices. 
 
 In a previous cross country team’ group message, whose membership consists of current and past members of the cross country team, individuals raised concerns over previous years’ spreadsheets, including one from 2012 that contained “Specific comments about girls weight or appearance,” according to one cross country alumnus on the group message on the mobile application Group Me. 
 
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 “Hahaha dude 2012 was the absolute worst I saw. It got tamer each year after that,” wrote one recent graduate. 
 
 “It’s terrible God,” agreed another member of the group, a recent College graduate. 
 
 “Also 2014 talked about a specific person getting black dick a lot," he wrote. 
 
 In an interview Saturday evening, men’s cross country captain Brandon E. Price ’17 said the team was “particularly ashamed of” the 2014 spreadsheet, but that team culture has since shifted and the 2016 spreadsheet does not contain any lewd comments. 
 
 “We have really changed the team culture since then, and now the spreadsheet is clean and we try to refrain from making comments like that,” Price said. 
 
 Last Thursday, after the Office of the General Counsel reviewed the men’s soccer team’s “scouting report” and discovered that the practice had continued after 2012, Harvard cancelled the rest of the men’s soccer season. University President Drew G. Faust said in a statement that the men’s team had not been “forthcoming when initially questioned” about their involvement in the “reports.” 
 
 In an email sent to members of the men’s cross country team Saturday afternoon, Price asked the team to “come clean with anything that we have typed down in the past.” He wrote in that email he had shared a document that “contains sexually explicit content about the girls’ team” with Coach Jason S. Saretsky. 
 
 “We don’t want the school to find this, without us first bringing it to them,” Price wrote. “The problem with the Men’s Soccer team was they tried to hide their stuff.” 
 
 In their internal cross country group message, one member expressed relief that none of the spreadsheets were “as bad as anything that made the article on soccer.” 
 
 According to their messages, the multiple recent graduates of the cross country program also removed viewing permissions on some of the spreadsheets. 
 
 One member wrote that the team should restrict access to spreadsheets because of the “untrustworthies” who could view them. 
 
 “We know who they are,” the member wrote. 
 
 “Should I change the sharing on 2012?” one member asked. 
 
 “Yeah probably for the best,” another responded. 
 
 Some members of the group message also expressed concern that The Crimson would gain access to the spreadsheets, according to the correspondence. 
 
 In an interview Thursday, before The Crimson reported information about the men’s cross country team, Faust said there have been preliminary discussions as to whether traditions like the men’s soccer team’s “scouting report” take place on other teams. 
 
 “I felt it was important to at least try to get some preliminary notion of, are there people who know of other incidents, so the question has not been delved into deeply beyond the soccer team,” Faust said. 
 
 “I have asked that it at least be raised as a question: is this wider spread?” she added. 
 
 Faust also said that Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise had brought together coaches from across Harvard’s Athletics Department to discuss the cultures of their respective teams. 
 
 “Harvard Athletics does not tolerate this sort of demeaning and derogatory behavior, and we will address any credible information we receive,” Scalise wrote in an emailed statement Saturday evening. 
 
 Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana wrote in an emailed statement that he did not know the details of the cross country spreadsheets. 
 
 “We must strive toward a culture and context of respect, dignity, and compassion - and all of us have a role to play in that work,” Khurana wrote. 
 
 —Staff writer Andrew M. Duehren can be reached at andy.duehren@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @aduehren. 
 
 —Staff writer C. Ramsey Fahs can be reached at ramsey.fahs@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @ramseyfahs. 
 
 —Staff writer Daphne C. Thompson can be reached at daphne.thompson@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @daphnectho. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images 
 
 Harvard University has suspended its men's soccer team after players made sexual comments about members of the women's team. 
 
 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". 
 
 The team, currently in first place in the Ivy League, 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. 
 
 They also noted which sexual position they thought the women in question would prefer. 
 
 Until recently, the Harvard Crimson newspaper reports, documents from 2012 were publicly accessible through a former team's Google Group. 
 
 'Not isolated' 
 
 Ms Faust said an investigation had found that the practice had continued to the current season. 
 
 She wrote that she "was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 men's soccer team were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few individuals". 
 
 Ms Faust added 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, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community." 
 
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 The discovery of sexually explicit comments made by male Harvard athletes is at the milder end of what has been dubbed US college "rape culture". 
 
 Banners regularly appear at the beginning of the academic year bearing slogans such as: "Rowdy and fun. Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time". 
 
 Studies have found that members of US college fraternities are three times more likely to commit rape than other male students while members of sororities were 74% more likely to experience sexual assault. 
 
 Past scandals include an email sent around one fraternity entitled "Luring your rapebait" and fraternity members chanting "No means yes". 
 
 The most recent case involved a Stanford University swimming champion who sexually assaulted an unconscious female student before being jailed for six months - a term condemned by many as too short. 
 
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 Last week after the original story came out, the female players in question said they were "appalled that female athletes who are told to feel empowered and proud of their abilities are so regularly reduced to a physical appearance". 
 
 In an opinion piece published in the Crimson, they said: "More than anything, we are frustrated that this is a reality that all women have faced in the past and will continue to face throughout their lives." 
 
 The university's director of athletics, Robert Scalise, said: "It's very disappointing and disturbing that people are doing this. 
 
 "Any time a member of our community says things about other people who are in our community that are disparaging, it takes away from the potential for creating the kind of learning environment that we'd like to have 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". ||||| UPDATED: November 3, 2016, at 10:54 p.m. 
 
 Harvard has cancelled the men’s soccer team’s season after an Office of General Counsel review found that the team continued to produce vulgar and explicit documents rating women on their perceived sexual appeal and physical appearance. 
 
 Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise wrote in an email to Harvard student athletes that he decided to cancel the rest of the team’s season because the “practice appears to be more widespread across the team and has continued beyond 2012, including in 2016.” 
 
 “As a direct result of what Harvard Athletics has learned, we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 men’s soccer season,” Scalise wrote. “The team will forfeit its remaining games and will decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year.” 
 
 Last week, The Crimson reported that the 2012 men’s soccer team created a “scouting report” of that year’s women’s soccer recruits, rating them numerically and assigning each a hypothetical sexual position. University President Drew G. Faust instructed OGC, Harvard’s team of lawyers, to “review” the matter. 
 
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 “As I asked the OGC to undertake this, it had to be on a fairly short time frame because the season is proceeding apace,” Faust said in an interview Thursday. “I wanted a response that would be within the context of the team’s responsibilities representing Harvard and this athletic season.” 
 
 According to both Scalise and a statement from University President Drew G. Faust, members of the soccer team were not initially forthcoming about their involvement in the “reports.” 
 
 “The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard’s view that both the team’s behavior and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community,” Faust wrote in a statement. 
 
 Faust wrote she “was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 men’s soccer team were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few individuals.” 
 
 Harvard Men's Soccer in action against Yale on October 1st 2016. 
 
 Faust also said Thursday that there have been preliminary discussions about whether or not this type of behavior takes place on other sports teams. 
 
 “I felt it was important to at least try to get some preliminary notion of are there people who know of other incidents, so the question has not been delved into deeply beyond the soccer team, but I have asked that it at least be raised as a question: is this wider spread?” Faust said. 
 
 Last week, when Scalise first saw the documents—which were, until recently, publicly accessible through the 2012 team’s Google Group—he said he would immediately reach out to coaches of both men’s and women’s teams to discuss the report, but added that any response should be internal to Harvard and “not a media thing.” 
 
 The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response will work to “further educate” the men’s soccer team specifically and student-athletes generally, according to Scalise. 
 
 
 
 
 
 “Harvard Athletics has zero tolerance for this type of behavior,” Scalise added. 
 
 Men's soccer coach Pieter S. Lehrer wrote in a statement that the team is "beyond disappointed that our season has ended in this way, but we respect the decision made by our administration.” 
 
 In a statement Thursday evening, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana wrote that he was “saddened and disappointed to learn that the extremely offensive ‘scouting report’ produced by the 2012 men’s soccer team continued through the current season.” 
 
 When The Crimson initially wrote on the lewd document from 2012, Khurana did not respond to multiple requests for an in-person interview to view the documents, instead writing in an emailed statement that he was “always profoundly disturbed and upset by allegations of sexism.” 
 
 “As I was not Dean of Harvard College in 2012 and do not have knowledge of this particular email, I cannot speak to the alleged conduct of these particular students,” Khurana wrote at the time. 
 
 The six 2012 women recruits written about in the “report” responded to The Crimson’s initial story in a joint op-ed earlier this week, condemning the “report” but ultimately forgiving the men’s team for their actions. The op-ed drew praise from Scalise and many students over social media. 
 
 “We are appalled that female athletes who are told to feel empowered and proud of their abilities are so regularly reduced to a physical appearance,” they wrote. 
 
 Had the men’s soccer team competed and won in its game this Saturday against Columbia, it would have clinched an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. 
 
 —Staff writer Andrew M. Duehren can be reached at andy.duehren@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @aduehren. 
 
 —Staff writer C. Ramsey Fahs can be reached at ramsey.fahs@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @ramseyfahs. 
 
 —Staff writer Daphne C. Thompson can be reached at daphne.thompson@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @daphnectho.
– When Harvard suspended its men's soccer team last week for the rest of the season due to an "appalling" system of ranking female players, one of the reasons the school gave for its harsh punishment was the fact that team members weren't exactly communicative and cooperative at first (the team as a whole has since apologized). Per Inside Higher Ed, the men on the school's cross-country team were obviously paying attention to the smackdown: Now members of that roster have come forward to admit to their own past spreadsheets (some containing "sexually explicit" remarks) describing female athletes and compiled each year before a dance held with the women's cross-country team, the Harvard Crimson reports. The cross-country team's documents included speculation as to which guys would get an invite to the dance from which girls, with some comments referring to the women's weight or other physical attributes. And per correspondence between alumni seen by the Crimson, even former and current team members acknowledge how bad past spreadsheets were, with one noting, "Hahaha dude 2012 was the absolute worst." Team captain Brandon E. Price, who on Saturday emailed the team to "come clean" about any female rankings, says the team has tamped down the lewdness since a 2014 spreadsheet the team was "particularly ashamed of." The school's athletic director says in a statement: "Harvard Athletics does not tolerate this sort of demeaning and derogatory behavior, and we will address any credible information we receive." (A response from some of the former female soccer players.)