In a culture of privilege and liquor at Yale, his world has converged with Kavanaugh

DKE was a "big brotherhood of celebration," said former classmate Sarah Dry. "Many drunk evenings."

The DKE engagement process was widely viewed on campus as degrading. An opinion piece published in The Yale Daily News in 1986 indicated that pledges had been made to get around the campus by reading Penthouse magazine aloud and shouting lines like "I'm an asshole, sir" .

One woman recalls that Judge Kavanaugh was wearing a leather football helmet while drinking and approaching her on campus the night he was typed for DKE. She said he grabbed his crotch, jumped on one leg and sang, "I'm a geek, I'm a geek, I'm a powerful tool. When I sing this song, I look like a fool.

Nearly a dozen people who knew him well or socialized him said that Judge Kavanaugh was a big drinker at the university. Dr. Swisher said that she saw him "very drunk" several times. Mr. Roche, his former first-year roommate, described his fall at any hour of the night.

In a statement, Kerri Kupec, a White House spokeswoman, downplayed Kavanaugh's abusive use of Yale without contesting it. "It becomes absurd," she said. "Nobody claimed that Judge Kavanaugh had not drunk in high school or college."

Ms. Kupec noted that in an interview with Fox News on Monday, Mr. Kavanaugh acknowledged that "we probably all did things we look at in high school and we regret or we regret a little".

Some former students have warned against Judge Kavanaugh's association with the heavy DKE party contingent. "It was a typical fraternity that served alcohol, but I do not remember seeing drunk Brett Kavanaugh," said John Risley, who rode Judge Kavanaugh to Yale and was friendly with DKE members.

One night, Mrs. Ramirez told the New Yorker that Judge Kavanaugh was exposing herself to her during a game of alcohol in a dormitory suite.