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were falsely accused of raping a stripper who had been hired to perform at an off-campus team party on March 13, 2006. Brodhead stated, on March 25, 2006, that "our students must be presumed innocent until proven otherwise" and that "whatever they did is bad enough", while talking about sexual
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480:Carnegie Corporation of New York
209:19th-century American literature
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633:"Yale Bulletin and Calendar"
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1338:Arthur Hollis Edens
1326:William Preston Few
1320:John Carlisle Kilgo
1199:Heart of the Matter
496:Tsinghua University
432:men's lacrosse team
400:J. Deryl Hart House
349:Middlebury, Vermont
317:Charles W. Chesnutt
309:Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1229:New York, New York
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