quite competitive...just not competitive enough in men’s basketball to regularly make the tournament. When was their last Basketball national championship? 1901.

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“You keep maintaining that he was expelled for something else.”
No, I keep maintaining we have no idea what he was expelled for.

“Every news outlet points to rumors about sexual assault, rumors you mentioned in your very first post.”

And every news outlet goes to great pains to point out that these are rumors that they…

Yale’s basketball team has been to the NCAA tournament four times. Their combined record is 0-4. The last time they were there was 1962. Clearly, covering the basketball team is the powerhouse of the university. (note they made the tournament this year without the Captain, so your last point seems moot).

wow, someone doesn’t like the Ivies being made fun of, I guess?

“I’m not suggesting he was expelled for rumors at all” Look, from the first post you brought up the contention that he wasn’t just expelled for rumors. I agree. But it isn’t relevant because nobody has claimed here that he was expelled for rumors. I said this again and again but you keep saying the same thing.

I appreciate you trying to tie this to some actual data, but we don’t know that these are the same person. How many Yale students were expelled for non sexual assault reasons? If that number is zero then we can probably conclude that this one person is the same as the basketball player. If not, then all we have is a…

There is so much distance between you and the point.

Jezabel also reported rumors that the basketball team was going to walk out on their game last Saturday, but apparently the rumors were inaccurate as rumors often are.

What rape allegations? Do we have anything that we can rely upon as accurate that actually indicates there was a rape allegation? Do we have a victim? Do we have a report to the college? Do we have a judicial determination by the college? Do we have a police report?

The only reason that everyone is silent is that…

um, this is the ivy league, they are lucky to field a sports team at all. Besides, you seem to keep misunderstanding what the term “rumor” refers to. It doesn’t refer to a rumor that he did something, it is that what he did is only rumors (i.e., no actual disclosure of what he was expelled for). These two things are…

The rumors are to what he was expelled for, not that he was expelled for rumors of having committed a sexual assault. He could have been expelled for any number of reasons and right not that seems to be a matter of pure speculation.

Well for one, is there any reason to believe the anonymous people? Any reason to believe they are relying on actual knowledge? The school may have to hide behind Hippa but others do not. If there was a police complaint they would have to reveal it, but there has not been one. Since when do we make headlines purely on…

I’ve been trying to find that. The original complaint doesn’t list it and I haven’t seen a copy yet of the actual verdict. However, since compensatory damages are actual damages I can’t see how much can be established with evidence. Most has to be punishment to Marriott for bad behavior.

I’m confused by these stories. Every headline says “rumored sexual assault” but nothing verifiable has been put out there as to why he was expelled. Obviously it was something bad since schools don’t expel with great frequency, but where is the rape presumption coming from specifically?

They never report much on the inside baseball such as the damages case, but I can’t imagine her actual damages being established at much of this total. The majority is likely punitive damages.

agree to all of the above...though I expect the jury award to be reduced before all is said and done.

so at most she’d collect 27 Million. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is reduced on appeal (if the hotel appeals).

not necessarily, we do tend to raise boys and girls with slightly different expectations and cultural norms. As well as how we treat emotional intelligence. We do see an uptick in men killing women for trivial things and it can’t just be because men feel entitled to women’s bodies as an abstract concept.

I feel that there has been a shift in society that I can’t quite put my finger on. Obviously girls have rejected men forever. They took it like men and moved on. I don’t think it is as simple to say men feel entitled to women because there have been misogynistic men forever as well. Maybe there is something about the…