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<p>If anonymous sources are to be believed, further into the article, it’s made clear Rhodes did inform Witt.</p>
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<p>To be fair to Witt, given what he hopes to earn in the NFL (and the fact that he had already employed a spin-doctor), he may simply have thought at the point he was told what was going on by both Rhodes and the Yale faculty member, it wasn’t worth pursuing any longer. Says nothing whatsoever about the truth or lack thereof of the allegation, only that there would be a high burden to surmount.</p>
<p>And it may have been YALE that wanted to spin the Rhodes v. Harvard Game story.</p>
<p>what a hatchet job by the NYTimes… </p>
<p>perhaps they should have interviewed the girl who was “sexual assaulted” but refuses to go to the police or tell anyone of importance what happened. Maybe they could’ve used the story to assassinate two characters instead of just one.</p>
<p>Is the mention of two alcohol and violence related arrests by a football player seeking a prestigious award emphasizing character a hatchet job? He appears to be a very bright guy and a good athlete with issues about aggression and candor. Perhaps he would be a good pro football player or future Wall Street CEO, but not such a great Rhodes Scholar.</p>
<p>His coach was a guy committing resume fraud. Yale doesn’t give athletic scholarships and they were crushed by Harvard; i.e., they aren’t very good, yet this athletic corruption b.s. is still happening there. This seamy episode is very disappointing.</p>
<p>obviously he is not seeking the award, and hasn’t been for some time, correct?</p>
<p>the alcohol is a fine topic to cover. It is not ok to portray him as a rapist.</p>
<p>Not that the NYTimes has high journalistic standards…</p>
<p>He sought publicity for turning the award down in a pseudo heroic fashion to get crushed by Harvard. He wasn’t portrayed as a rapist. Sexual assault is not always rape. He was accused of an unspecified form of sexual misconduct. That accusation should not be raised when an award is sought based in part on character?</p>
<p>How many people know that Rhodes was a White Supremacist and possessed other juicy character flaws?</p>
<p>He hasn’t been seeking the award for months now.</p>
<p>LOL at parent1986!!!</p>
<p>Rhodes certainly had feet of clay. By no means was he a moral giant. But of course he was a man of his day; a privileged one at that.</p>