Colleges When Yale star quarterback Patrick J. Witt announced he withdrew his Rhodes Scholarship application to play against Harvard six days later in The Game, his choice capped weeks of admiring national attention. But The New York Times reports that Witt was no longer a contender for the scholarship, because several days earlier, according to people involved on both sides of the process, the Rhodes Trust had learned through unofficial channels that a fellow student had accused Witt of sexual assault, and Rhodes informed Yale and Witt that his candidacy was suspended unless the university decided to re-endorse it. Witt’s accuser has not gone to the police, nor filed what Yale considers a formal complaint. The New York Times has not spoken with her and does not know her name. Witt, 22, is no longer enrolled at Yale but has not graduated.
Yale QB's Rhodes bid was suspended
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At memorial, anger over Paterno firing
Mourners credited former Penn State coach Joe Paterno with building not just better athletes, but better men, during a campus memorial service attended by some 12,000 people. Nike chairman and CEO Phil Knight brought the near-capacity crowd at the basketball arena to its feet when he defended the coach’s handling of child-sex allegations leveled against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. “If there is a villain in this tragedy, it lies in that investigation and not in Joe Paterno,’’ Knight said. Paterno’s widow, Sue, was among those rising to their feet . . . Boise State cornerback Quaylon Ewing-Burton was dismissed from the team, with athletic department officials saying the sophomore did not live up to program standards.
Brubaker-Marley take short program
Figure skating Rockne Brubaker, who won four pairs titles with two previous partners, won the short program at the US Championships at San Jose, Calif., with Mary Beth Marley. The duo looked like seasoned veterans in their second season together, their score of 65.80 points, more than 4 points better than last year’s runners-up, Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig. Caydee Denney and John Coughlin, who won the last two US titles with different partners, were third going into tomorrow’s free skate. Marissa Castelli (Cranston, R.I.) and Simon Shnapir (Sudbury, Mass.) were fourth, and Gretchen Donlan (Hingham, Mass.) and Andrew Speroff were in fifth.
Indians put ‘Carmona’ on restricted list
