“It crosses the line to inappropriate behavior when the students themselves complained that this was disruptive to them,” said head TF of Justice Daniel M. Loss ’00.

Loss explained that the main concern of Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and his teaching staff was that the students were disruptive and did not appreciate the pranks, citing their hissing as a clear indication that enough was enough.

He said that after the “pranks,” some TFs left the lecture to get student offender names. While he said some of the students have been identified, he did not specify how they would be disciplined.

“Regardless of what particular action is taken against these individuals involved, it is important that final clubs not feel at liberty to disrupt classes,” Loss said. “What action will be taken is less importance than the overall situation and that something is done.”

And while many ladies have been left laughing by the spontaneous strip acts and serenades, some have been offended by their explicitly sexual nature.

Kaija-Leena Romero ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, said she found final clubs and their initiation processes offensive.

“You should ask someone if it’s even the tiniest bit insulting that, two nights after a woman was assaulted walking down the street just minding her business, men run around screaming drunk and shirtless,” she said. “Women are cowering in groups, afraid to walk down the street fully clothed due to worries about another attack, and these stupid boys are ranting and raving as if nothing has happened at all.”

And still others worry these initiations are not only offensive to the Harvard community but are detrimental to the initiates themselves.

Unofficially publicized but widely recognized binge drinking often accompanies these rituals.

But Christopher Coley, chief of medicine at University Health Services (UHS), said the hospital has not seen a significant rise in admittances due to alcohol-related illness to correspond with initiations.

“The weekly rates of admissions to UHS for alcohol intoxication have been quite stable since the middle of September,” Coley wrote in an e-mail.

“[But] one must be careful not to conclude that the absence of any change in such admission during such a time period is firm grounds for concluding anything about change in actual behaviors such as excess alcohol usage,” he added. “We really don’t know what the reality is in those situations.”

—Staff writer Faryl W. Ury can be reached at ury@fas.harvard.edu.