Sitting on Quarterback Sex Assault Story, Yale Daily News Considered Seeking a Private Jet for Witt [Yale]

This morning we read how Yale Daily News, “Gutsiest Campus Newspaper of 2011,” sat on the story of perfect Yale quarterback Patrick Witt’s sex assault scandal for two months. Now, a humorous coda to their silence: We hear that YDN actually considered calling on wealthy alumni to charter a jet for the campus hero, so he wouldn’t have to choose between the Yale-Harvard game and his Rhodes Scholarship interview. More »