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Expelled Yale hoops player seeks reinstatement, claims school violated its own Title IX confidentiality rules

NEW HAVEN — Attorneys representing expelled former Yale University basketball captain Jack Montague have filed a motion in federal court that seeks to force the school to allow him to complete his degree. Yale expelled the hoops star months before he was set to graduate after a university disciplinary committee determined

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Harvard Final Club fights back

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard College's Final Clubs, the exclusive social institutions unaffiliated with the Ivy League university but targeted by administrators over sexual assault data, are fighting back. In March, a school task force on campus assault released a report that ripped the undergraduate school's six all-male clubs,

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No easy cure for dysfunctional campus sexual culture

Dorm rooms, shower baskets, Frisbees flying through a sun-streaked courtyards — these are traditional iconic images of a college school year's kickoff. Today's college students, however, might also add "sensitivity seminars" and warnings about the prevalence of sexual assault as one of the rites of

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Police, not bureaucrats, should handle charges of campus sex assault

A bill introduced last week in Congress has the right idea for addressing college sexual assaults. It would require universities to call the police when an allegation of sexual assault is received. Rape is a very serious crime, and once university officials learn of a complaint, they should not have