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'Joke' Rape Film Sparks UConn Uproar

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:22:39 CST

What is it with New England universities? Just days after news broke that a sex assault accusation may have scuttled a Yale quarterback's chance at a Rhodes Scholarship comes word of a "joke" rape video aired on the University of Connecticut's student broadcast network. The "comedy sketch," part of UCTV's...

Yale Daily News Sat on QB Sex Assault Story

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:09:41 CST

The Patrick Witt sex assault story gets messier: The Yale Daily News , which was just last year named the one of the gutsiest campus newspapers , knew for months that the Yale quarterback and onetime Rhodes candidate had been accused of sexual assault, but sat on the story. On Jim Romenesko's...

Yale Bans Kegs at Tailgates After Deadly Crash

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:33:30 CST

Yale has banned kegs from all student athletic games or functions in the wake of a U-Haul crash that killed a woman at the Harvard-Yale football game in November. The new rules also prohibit box trucks and the like from tailgate parties unless driven by an official vendor, reports AP...

Yale Coach Quits After Rhodes Lie Exposed

Rob Quinn — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:35:00 CST

Yale quarterback Patrick Witt made headlines last month when he ditched his Rhodes Scholarship interview to lead his team against Harvard . But his decision was influenced by a fib from coach Tom Williams, the New York Times reports. The coach told Witt that he had been in almost identical circumstances...

Franco's Yale Prof: James Is a Model Student

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:55:05 CST

Did James Franco really deserve that D he got in an NYU acting class—the one that may or may not have gotten his acting professor fired ? R. John Williams doesn’t think so, and he should know: He’s Franco’s English adviser at Yale, and in a glowing Slate essay,...

Yale QB Ditches Rhodes for 'The Game'

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:58:05 CST

Given what one might think would be a fairly straightforward choice between a Rhodes Scholarship and a football game, Patrick Witt chose the football game. It's not just any game, but rather a game known as "The Game": The Yale senior will lead his team Saturday in their storied annual...

New College Rankings: An Ivy Deadheat

Matt Cantor — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:34:27 CDT

US News and World Report has released its latest college rankings, and it’s full of the usual suspects, with Harvard, Princeton, and Yale topping the list; not much has changed since last year . Among liberal arts colleges , Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore lead the pack. The magazine also presents its best...

Annie Le's Family Sues Yale

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:59:40 CDT

Yale University could have, and should have, done more to protect Annie Le and other women on campus, Le’s family claims in a lawsuit filed yesterday. The family is suing for wrongful death over the murder of Le, who was killed by a co-worker at a campus lab in 2009....

Cambridge Named Best University ... Again

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:03:53 CDT

For all the Harvard grads out there, don't kick yourself—but your school has come in second around the world... again. The Independent reports that QS World University Rankings has given the prize of best university to Cambridge for the second year in a row. Filling out the top five,...