Great Excuses of Our Time: Zeta Psi Never Read Sign
WE LOVE YALE SLUTS-gate rumbles on. The Zeta Psi pledge photographed holding the sign, Giovanni Christodoulou ‘11, chooses a unique defense:
“I never even read the sign,” Christodoulou, a wide receiver and defensive back for the Yale football team, said in the interview. “They gave me the sign, and I held it up.”
Of all excuses, this has to be the one we least saw coming. Rumor has it the football star is also in trouble for wearing his team jacket during the misadventure, though we find it hard to believe anything on his body is more problematic than that bandana. Then again, it would suck to have bad hair in the one picture that gets you on the cover of the school newspaper and blasted across a zillion blogs, so we understand the dilemma.
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January 24th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Over it.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I think we’re all rushing to judgement! Maybe he can’t read! Those are some long words for Yale students!
January 24th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I hadn’t thought of that!
January 25th, 2008 at 2:01 am
he wore that bandana because he didn’t want everyone to see his new haircut
fuckin skanks!
January 25th, 2008 at 5:38 am
im so over this…let it go ivy gate.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Um… I’m not over it. KEEP ON COVERING IT IVYGATE PLEASE.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Isn’t that what Romney said when pictured next to a woman holding a sign that said, “No to Osama, Obama, and Chelsea’s Mama”???
January 25th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Isn’t that what Romney said when pictured next to a woman holding a sign that said, “No to Osama, Obama, and Chelsea’s Mama”???
January 25th, 2008 at 9:49 am
OMG IM SO NOT OVER DIS PLZ COVER IT MOAR AND I PROMISE EPIC LULZ IN THE FUTUR.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:01 am
And to think Gio was the man who scored Yale’s only points in The Game. Expel him and it’ll be 37-0 next year.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Give the kid a break. You really think that, when he woke up that morning, he knew he would be holding a sign saying “we love yale sluts.” Please. Don’t blame some clueless freshman pledge based on hearsay because most of you don’t actually know the facts….
January 25th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
bring back daily ragtime!!!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
bring back daily ragtime
January 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Umm, all the facts I need are there in the picture…
And I don’t follow your logic AT ALL. You’re saying that if someone doesn’t wake up in the morning thinking that they’re going to do something, then they shouldn’t have to take responsibility for it? That doesn’t make any sense. Get an education.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Gio is a really good kid and as a pledge, he probably didn’t read the sign. Give Gio a break!
January 25th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Goddamn, that’s some controversial gang signs they be pullin. At least the guy that was throwing westside had watched an episode of Fresh Prince or two, but the kid with the peace sign? Needs more white-audience-marketed hip hop culture, for sure.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Goddamn, that’s some controversial gang signs they be pullin. At least the guy that was throwing westside had watched an episode of Fresh Prince or two, but the kid with the peace sign? Needs more white-audience-marketed hip hop culture, for sure.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
i think he’s decently hot - i’d fuck him, as long as he lost the bandana before bed.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
^^are you a yale slut?
January 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
“Don’t blame some clueless freshman pledge based on hearsay because most of you don’t actually know the facts….”
Wait, which part is the hearsay? The PICTURE of him holding up the sign? Do yalies have some secret definition of hearsay that us non-yalies can;t hope to comprehend?
January 26th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
@ Bob Dylan: Nope, just a Dartmouth one.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Today’s episode is brought to you by the letter PSI
IT”S NOT A GANG SIGN!!!! That ‘westside’ sign is what Psi looks like (the Greek letter that’s in the fraternity’s name, for those of you who still can’t make the connection). Yes, they’re tools. Yes they acted stupid. But no, they were not acting as fake-thugs (as much of a ghetto as New Haven actually is). Throwing a frat sign in a frat picture should be the least controversial part of this picture (despite the number of commenters on this site in the past few days who have held otherwise).
A picture of the letter Psi can be found at http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/media/png/Psi.png
February 10th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
they sure did teach Gio well in that wonderful high school of his. How he got into to yale we will never know. I mean he cant even read signs (:
February 12th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
first of all i would like to say i know gio and he would never do anything to disrespect women in anyway. this whole situation has gone way out of hand and to be honest me as a women wouldnt get offended by this it was just a joke and im sure he or none of they guys knew it will get this out of hand. and if the girls werent “sluts” then they wouldnt be so offended they should learn just to brush it off. so simply get over it if it wasnt for him yales football team would be no where.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
first of all i would like to say i know gio and he would never do anything to disrespect women in anyway. this whole situation has gone way out of hand and to be honest me as a women wouldnt get offended by this it was just a joke and im sure he or none of they guys knew it will get this out of hand. and if the girls werent “sluts” then they wouldnt be so offended they should learn just to brush it off. so simply get over it if it wasnt for him yales football team would be no where.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
first of all i would like to say i know gio and he would never do anything to disrespect women in anyway. this whole situation has gone way out of hand and to be honest me as a women wouldnt get offended by this it was just a joke and im sure he or none of they guys knew it will get this out of hand. and if the girls werent “sluts” then they wouldnt be so offended they should learn just to brush it off. so simply get over it if it wasnt for him yales football team would be no where.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
First of all i would like to say I know Gio and he would never do anything to disrespect women in anyway. This whole situation has gone way out of hand and to be honest me as a women wouldnt get offended by this it was just a joke and im sure he or none of they guys knew it will get this out of hand. And if the girls werent “sluts” then they wouldnt be so offended they should learn just to brush it off. So simply get over it if it wasn’t for him yales football team would be no where.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am
This is really stupid. Feminists today receive a bad wrap because of women who think that by arguing about every issue they find offensive they’re going to earn respect. Feminists are viewed now as whining, irrational women because let’s face it, how is it rational to argue for equality when all you’re doing is whining about how certain forms of expressions should be suppressed or censored. This whole issue is completely stupid because there really isn’t an issue here. Did they do something illegal? No. Did they attack anyone personally, using slander or personal references? No. Was anyone hurt by this picture? No. Did anyone suffer economically or mentally because of this picture? No. People were just offended, just like some people are offended by curse words or by anti-religious statements. Does this mean we should ban all that is offensive? LOL @ anyone mentioning an ‘education when they honestly think a democracy can work without contestation.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:22 am
To top off this cookie as well, I’ve met Gio more than a few times and I can personally say that while I don’t like the guy in the least bit and am probably biased against him personally, it would be a blatant lie to say that he is a chauvinist or was actually serious about that sign. People are completely overlooking the fact that this was part of a pledge for a fraternity, and during pledging you’re living under a rock if you don’t know what pledging entails. Some of the things pledgees have to do are downright ridiculous, but they’re only operating on a system of “customs” for hazing. This wasn’t a serious picture or a political statement. It was a very basic pledge task. Get.over.it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Gio has always been an asshole in more ways than one and his bad habits are starting to catch up with him. I really hope he gets his act together now before he gets into the “real” world. I really do.
March 5th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hey “not a fan” sounds like you are envious of Gio. He’s an awesome athlete and a great kid. He does have his act together. You are pathetic.