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Interesting bits here:

"The statement references the woman’s account of the incident in question, which was relayed to independent investigators hired by Yale. It says she and Montague slept together in his room “on four occasions in the fall of 2014.” The two had sexual intercourse on two of those occasions, one of which, she says, she did not consent to.

Montague says the sex was consensual.

“On the fourth occasion, she joined him in bed, voluntarily removed all of her clothes, and they had sexual intercourse,” Stern’s statement reads. “Then they got up, left the room and went separate ways. Later that same night, she reached out to him to meet up, then returned to his room voluntarily, and spent the rest of the night in his bed with him.”

A year later, the woman, a junior at Yale, reported the alleged rape to a Title IX coordinator, who “filed a formal complaint with the University-Wide Committee,” the statement says. That started the process that eventually led to Montague’s February dismissal.

From Stern’s statement:

Only two persons could have known what happened on that fourth night. The panel chose to believe the woman, by a “preponderance of the evidence.” We believe that it defies logic and common sense that a woman would seek to re-connect and get back into bed with a man who she says forced her to have unwanted sex just hours earlier. And yet the Dean accepted this conclusion and ordered Jack to be expelled. His decision was then upheld by the Provost.

We strongly believe that the decision to expel Jack Montague was wrong, unfairly determined, arbitrary, and excessive by any rational measure. Yale has been oblivious to the catastrophic and irreparable damage resulting from these allegations and determinations. The expulsion not only deprives Jack of the degree which he was only three months short of earning, but has simultaneously destroyed both his educational and basketball careers."

Yale has plenty of money. There's got to be a few million for Jack.