UniLad founder Faces Disciplinary Action

Following the controversy surrounding UniLad the site's owner Jamie Street is facing disciplinary action from his university.

The site was taken down following uproar online around the article 'Sexual Mathematics' which seemed to condone rape.

The vehement public response was the result of comments such as “If the girl you’ve taken for a drink…won’t ‘spread for your head,’ think about this mathematical statistic, 85% of rape cases go unreported” appearing in the article.

The university at which Street studies is now considering taking disciplinary action against the student and bookmakers William Hill have withdrawn their advertising from the site, which is set to return with a different editorial policy.

Street has now acknowledged that the site went too far, stating to the BBC, ""I only deal with the technical aspect of the website and am not responsible for writing or checking the content that gets published. I am however appalled myself that UniLad went this far."

Alex Partridge, the Editor In Chief at UniLad also posted a public apology on the site stating, "The article in question was a shambles and should never have been printed. Any flippant comments that may have been said during discussions, I also apologise for, it will not happen again. We are certainly going to be cleaning up our act on unilad.com.”

The site shut down after pressure online by people offended by the comments and also from the NUS. Estelle Hart, NUS women's officer, said, "The rape conviction rate in the UK is, at 6%, one of the lowest in Europe and that's with less than 20% of rapes ever reported to the police."

She goes on to say "referring to women as wenches and slags can't be laughed off as 'banter' when just this week the head of the CPS in London has said that jurors' preconceptions about women has a negative impact on rape conviction rates."