University officials commented on Thursday that the males did not engage in sexual harassment because they sent the e-mail to friends and did not intend to harass them. Also, the university said they could not charge them with misuse of computer resources because it does not have any policies on free speech.
Many universities have hate-speech policies which they have applied to their computer networks.
But it is refusing to look at the social impact of what they are doing. Terue Hara, president of the League of Women Voters in Japan criticized Japan specifically for failing to put women's issue on this week's APEC meetings, which it is hosting. More than one billion women live in APEC's member nations. Last month, Georgetown College gathered over three dozen female leaders from across Kentucky to discuss what it takes for women to succeed as leaders. The seminar allowed prominent female leaders to discuss their roads to success and styles of leadership with a younger generation.