NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University's Title IX-based policies for handling sexual assault allegations may come under legal scrutiny if a recently expelled basketball player makes good on his vow to take the Ivy League school to court over what his lawyer calls a "wrong, arbitrary" decision and the fallout since.
Jack Montague, a senior and former captain of Yale's men's basketball team, was expelled from the school on Feb. 10 after a panel of the University Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct determined he had nonconsensual sex in October 2014 with a female student who is now a junior at the school.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Fans of H.P. Lovecraft's writings are trying to use the growing fame of the early 20th century fantasy-horror writer to promote Providence's weird side.
Lovecraft so identified with Rhode Island's capital city that he wrote "I am Providence" in a letter. His headstone bears the phrase. Some of Lovecraft's best-known works are set in Providence.
