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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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Yale students demand end to ‘hostile’ English Lit courses

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The latest social-justice crusade bubbling up among "oppressed" undergraduates at prestigious Yale University comes in the form of a student petition asserting that a "Major English Poets" curriculum requirement features too many major poets from England who are white and male. The petition

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Ex-Yale hoops star sues school over expulsion by Title IX tribunal

NEW HAVEN – The former captain of the Yale University men's basketball team has sued the Ivy League school for defamation and breach of contract, claiming the university unfairly expelled him after a secret Title IX tribunal decided that his relationship with a fellow student constituted sexual assault, despite

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Yale professors who stood up for free speech step down

Two married Yale professors who were recently caught up in a fierce debate over free speech have announced they are resigning from a leadership position they shared, giving into the demands of student detractors who aggressively attacked them last fall.

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Asian groups target Ivy League for racial discrimination

A coalition of over 100 Asian-American groups is filing an administrative complaint with the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights against three Ivy League schools, accusing them of illegally discriminating against Asians in admissions. The complaint against Yale University, Brown University, and Dartmouth College is

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Yale names residential college after Episcopal saint

(RNS) — A new residential college at Yale University has been named for an Episcopal saint who was the first African-American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Anna Pauline Murray, known as "Pauli," was also a civil rights activist who helped shape the legal argument for the Brown

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Yale should follow GE to Boston

Maybe Yale should move. That's the reaction of at least one Yale graduate, the Cato Institute's Walter Olson, to the news that the Connecticut state legislature is reportedly considering imposing a new tax on endowment income of universities with endowments larger than $10 billion.

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Yale may have prevented accuser from recanting claim that got hoops star expelled

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A female Yale University student whose rape accusation against Jack Montague, a senior and the captain of the men's basketball team, resulted in his expulsion last month reportedly told a friend she wanted to recant the claim but wasn't allowed to take it