The Rhodes Trust offers their account of the Patrick J. Witt controversy, confirming to The New York Times that they suspended the Yale golden boy's candidacy in light of a sexual assault complaint.
Former Yale quarterback Patrick Witt supposedly gave up a chance to win a Rhodes Scholarship for a chance to play a game against rival Harvard, but a new report in The New York Times says there may have been another reason why he lost his shot at Oxford.
To figure out how the financial crisis college graduates' career choices, Catherine Rampell of The New York Times' Economix blog decided to look at how many young grads are vying to getting into 1 percent through Wall Street.
Yale's football coach submits his resignation after his quarterback's very real pursuit of a Rhodes scholarship brought his own Rhodes fibs to light, David Beckham is going to France, and UCLA's football team again insists on going over the wall.
One woman was killed and two others were injured when a U-Haul truck filled with beer kegs struck them in a tailgating area before the Yale-Harvard Big Game on Saturday.
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's wildly-covered decision to forego a Rhodes scholarship appointment so that he could play in this coming weekend's game against Harvard was supposed to be something he and his coach, Tom Williams, could relate to, but that isn't the case.
Patrick Witt, star quarterback of Yale's football team, decided to pull his Rhodes Scholarship application in order to play in the Harvard-Yale football game this coming Saturday, Bloomberg News and the Yale Daily News are reporting.
Delta Kappa Epsilon won't be on campus for five years
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