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RI court rejects Cranston police captain's `Ticketgate' libel claims providencejournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from providencejournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mike Polisky, Northwestern’s new athletic director For years, cheerleaders at Northwestern University have complained that they’ve been paraded as sex objects to entertain wealthy donors and forced to suppress their racial identities to fit a certain mold. On Friday, a crowd of faculty and student supporters marched to the home of the university’s president, Morton O. Schapiro to protest the decision to promote an athletics official who they say played down the cheerleaders’ grievances. Protest organizers say hundreds turned out for the event. At issue was the hiring of Mike Polisky as the university’s new athletic director. Polisky is one of four Northwestern employees who, along with the university, was sued in January by Hayden Richardson, a senior and member of the cheer team. The federal lawsuit alleges that the university failed to adequately respond after Richardson complained about being groped by drunken fans and alumni at tailgates and fund-raising even ....
Cranston police captain wants his day in court on defamation suit PROVIDENCE A Cranston police captain wants a jury to hear his allegations that he was defamed by a TV news report implicating him as a key player in the now-infamous Ticketgate scandal. In 2014, Capt. Russell Henry sued WJAR-TV investigative reporter Jim Taricani; WJAR s news director at the time, Christopher Lanni; and Media General Operating Inc., then the owner of the station, after a news story aired naming him as one of the people who ordered a ticketing blitz following a City Council finance committee’s rejection of the police contract. Henry also named colleagues he believed to be the source of information to Taricani, then-Patrolman Peter Leclerc, Capt. Karen Guilbeault, now retired, and police retiree Ronald Jacob. ....
Northwestern Neuroscientist, Who Recently Admitted to Operating an Anonymous, Racist Twitter Account, Dies chronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.