okay seriously fuck you Patrick Witt
NEW HAVEN — On Nov. 13, Patrick J. Witt, Yale University’s star quarterback, announced that he had withdrawn his Rhodes scholarship application and would instead play against Harvard six days later, at the very time of the required Rhodes interview. His apparent choice of team fealty over individual honor capped weeks of admiring national attention on this accomplished student and his quandary.
But Witt was no longer a contender for the Rhodes, a rare honor reserved for those who excel in academics, activities and character. Several days earlier, according to people involved on both sides of the process, the Rhodes Trust had learned through unofficial channels that a fellow student had accused Witt of sexual assault. The Rhodes Trust informed Yale and Witt that his candidacy was suspended unless the university decided to re-endorse it.
you guys it was SO FUCKING NOBLE of Patrick Witt to not go to a RHODES SCHOLARSHIP INTERVIEW SO HE COULD PLAY IN THE BIG GAME AGAINST HARVARD, BECAUSE FOOTBALL IS CLEARLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN SCHOOL.
Not to mention that he was in a frat that was banned from campus activities for five years because of SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
And then the big dirty secret comes out of why he really lost it in the first place: for sexually assaulting someone.
way to perpetuate the stereotype of a brainless privileged piece of shit frat boy.
this article just incites so much anger in me and I want to punch him repeatedly in his fucking smug face because everything wrong with this country’s academic priorities are written in it. this fucking asshole gets picked to go to Yale on the basis that he can throw a fucking pigskin around over more gifted candidates (I don’t fucking care if he maintained a 3.9 GPA at Yale, being able to play football for Yale, which, to my knowledge, is not a big sports school to begin with, is nothing to write home about). And then someone offers this already privileged piece of shit a running to get a RHODES SCHOLARSHIP and he says he TURNED IT DOWN TO PLAY FOOTBALL. AND HE IS LAUDED FOR IT UNTIL SOMEONE EXPOSES HIM FOR THE DOUCHE HE IS. WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
There are so many other people who deserve that scholarship and I hope the Rhodes goes to someone a million times better than this sorry misogynistic piece of shit.
