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    I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 6:37pm

    This is the thing I don’t get. Why is no one denying it? Surely if it were not something related to sexual assault, Montague would want his name cleared, right? Anything else he could have been expelled for would be better than sexual assault.

    Also, I am betting now that if this story gets shared to Gawker, I will yet again get a flood of men telling me I’m condemning this poor poor man with no evidence blah blah blah blah.

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      puncha yo bunsI'm Fart and I'm Smunny
      3/09/16 6:52pm

      Hopefully not. I’ve never understood the mentality of people who support someone who’s been accused of a crime like this before the facts come out. Like Bill Cosby. Not condemning him until you know is one thing. But you have all these people telling their stories and your initial reaction is to defend him? How about you just shut the fuck up until we find out what happened, so you don’t look like an ass when it turns out that your beloved is not so fantastic.

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      Desperate for a Shag GilesI'm Fart and I'm Smunny
      3/09/16 7:00pm

      Maybe lawyers are urging him to keep his mouth shut for the time being?

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    KatMarloweEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 6:33pm

    “Yale Men’s Basketball fully supports a healthy, safe and respectful campus climate where all students can flourish. Our recent actions to show our support for one of our former teammates were not intended to suggest otherwise ...”

    What a crock of shit.

    Those guys were in a better position than anybody (outside of Montague’s own family) to know exactly why he was expelled. And, they went out of their way to make their support for him (and, by extension, his actions) clear. Now that the media glare on them is hotter than they anticipated and they’ve received some blowback from alums (full disclosure: I am one), they’ve decided to suspend their ongoing tribute to their fallen comrade <eyeroll>.

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      Chad cascaddenKatMarlowe
      3/09/16 6:35pm

      isn’t it possible that he denied any wrongdoing, they believed him, and then collectively lost that belief?

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      LaChavalinaChad cascadden
      3/09/16 6:43pm

      It’s possible they genuinely believe in his innocence. But I would hope that a place like Yale would encourage players to engage in critical thought. Such as: “He told me he did nothing wrong, but a university tribunal that heard evidence, and which had some incentive to retain him, decided by a preponderance of the evidence that he should be expelled. What do I believe?”

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    TheVageniusEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 7:04pm

    The coach’s statement wasn’t out of context. Out of context would mean something like they asked him his feelings on blueberries and then reported that he said he didn’t care about sexual assault. What happened was that they asked him about the alleged assault by one of his former players and he said he wasn’t interested in that. If what he meant was “my focus is on the game” then what he should have said is “my focus is on the game. Acting like the media fucked up here and he didn't say what he said is completely, unsurprisingly disingenuous.

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      Collapsed ConversationTheVagenius
      3/09/16 7:30pm

      But that appears to be what they are suggesting - that the media did somehow screw it up. If he said that but it was in response to the question about possible unsubstantiated rumors, and had indicated at some other point in the interview that he does care about the allegations, and that they didn’t print it, then that is quoting him out of context.

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      TheVageniusCollapsed Conversation
      3/09/16 7:51pm

      Yes, that’s my point. They suggested it was out of context and their explanation was that he was focusing on the game. That is not what “out of context” means. Nothing they said supports their assertion that he was taken out of context.

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    LetsgobowlingEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 6:56pm

    The update REALLY doesn’t help. “He only cared more about the game than an alleged rape because of TIMING.”

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      VodkaRocks&aPieceofToastLetsgobowling
      3/09/16 7:06pm

      Really? Its before a huge game and he needs to be the leader of the team. It wasn’t the time to get into the allegations. It was shit wording but he wasn’t wrong.

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      LetsgobowlingVodkaRocks&aPieceofToast
      3/09/16 7:11pm

      I don’t care. Even if he doesn’t give a damn about rape, it’s stunning to me that he couldn’t take a goddamn millisecond to find a less horrifically callous way to phrase things.

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    AskYourMotherEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 6:29pm

    WTF is a chalk-in?

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      NPBM2008AskYourMother
      3/09/16 6:45pm

      When people get together to speak and use chalk to write messages of support or share stories of their assaults.

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      BurnKinjaNPBM2008
      3/09/16 6:59pm

      What? Seriously? Are the messages of support too fragile for ink? As soon as it rains we can all forget about the whole thing?

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    VeryVickyEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 6:43pm

    Soooo, do we think someone threathened to withdraw funding or to check their transcripts to be sure they should even be on the team?

    Because with people like them it’s always about present money or future money.

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      LaChavalinaVeryVicky
      3/09/16 6:52pm

      They’re going to the NCAA tournament, so my guess is that someone at Yale told Athletics to get this tucked away before next week.

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      atlanticoceanidVeryVicky
      3/10/16 12:27pm

      Maybe, but they’re the school that has a fraternity that thought “No means Yes, Yes means Anal” was a good idea, so....

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    KittenMorningsEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 6:47pm

    By the “hurt we have caused”, they meant how they hurt their own chances at recruiting the best prospects to sign onto a team that now has a reputation for being a pack of sexual predators. That’s the hurt they are so sorry for.

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      rusholmeruffianKittenMornings
      3/09/16 6:49pm

      I would think that the average D-I basketball prospect would want to be part of a pack of shameless sexual predators.

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      Ihpsdmrusholmeruffian
      3/09/16 7:00pm

      They aren’t D-1 prospects, they are D-1 players. They are in college. I hate men so much because you can’t understand the difference.

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    Manolo CatastropheEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 7:05pm

    I’m a current Yale student and have heard that the reason he was expelled so suddenly and mysteriously is that he finally decoded the Voynich manuscript and it turns out to be a Trump/Cruz slashfic. His threats to publish it as a 13 part series in the Daily News is what sealed his fate.

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      to error is humanManolo Catastrophe
      3/09/16 8:50pm

      If only he had anonymously posted it on AO3 instead.

      Uh, I mean, not that I would have read it. Or peeked at the first chapter. Just for laughs.

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      Tzato error is human
      3/09/16 9:19pm

      Don’t laugh. Someone I know on the site found a Trump/Klyo Ren fic and seems traumatized.

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    BurlyqLawyerEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 7:10pm

    Oh we understand the context, Eileen.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZBurlyqLawyer
      3/09/16 8:14pm

      I ... that was just like ... “You are the Vice President - for Communications - at Yale University, woman. And you’re going to use the same old tired chuckleheaded “it-it-it was taken out of context!” saw the dude who was about to cheat on me sputtered out before I busted him red-handed and walked? When he & I were both 21 years old?

      Well, then, okay. I have ties to that other university, over near Boston, but we’ll do it your way this time:

      Precisely what ‘context’ were we supposed to put it in, then, exactly?”

      #ComeOnNow

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      Computer2Rooo sez BISH PLZ
      3/09/16 8:29pm

      #ComeOnEileen

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    TheVageniusEllie Shechet
    3/09/16 8:05pm

    If you hear that someone has been accused of sexual assault and has denied it, what seems more rational: rapists are SURPRISE! also liars? Or that someone would make up a sexual assault accusation knowing they’re going to be grilled on it for funsies? Especially when you know how common sexual assault is? I’m gonna go with no one in their right mind admits to being a rapist.

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      FourthAccountTheVagenius
      3/10/16 8:03am

      Or if you hear someone was accused, and expelled from colleges that notoriously try to hide and will these sorts of things away, what seems more rational....

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