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• Colorado coeds awarded $2.85M in assault suit

  - 2007-12-06

  DENVER AP -- The University of Colorado has agreed to pay two women $2.85 million to settle a lawsuit alleging they were sexually assaulted by football players and recruits, school officials said Wednesday. The allegations had sparked a football recruiting scandal at the school, prompted broad university reforms...

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• Corrections

  - 2007-04-06

  The Colorado university rocked by a recruiting scandal in 2004 was the University of Colorado, not the school listed in March 23 story on "March Madness." Also in that story, University of New Haven sociologist Allen Sack was identified as the starting defensive end on Notre Dame's 1966 national championship...

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• Colorado starting from new territory

  - 2006-08-30

  Correction ran 8/31/2006: A photo caption Wednesday with a story about the University of Colorado football team misidentified the Colorado player who was running the ball. He is Terry Washington. BOULDER, Colo. -- University of Colorado football coach Dan Hawkins will face plenty that's unfamiliar this season, his first with...

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• Embattled CU president resigns

  - 2005-03-08

  When Elizabeth Hoffman came to the University of Colorado nearly five years ago, she wanted to dispel the notion that Boulder, CU's flagship campus, was everyone's favorite. Her message held more truth than she realized. Boulder's tarnished reputation from a football recruiting scandal and...

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• Athletics director resigns.(University of Colorado, Dick Tharp )(Brief Article)

  - 2004-12-01

  Athletics Director Resigns--In the wake of the recruiting sex scandals that have plagued the school in the past year, University of Colorado CU Athletics Director Dick Tharp resigned late last month. Tharp said he was resigning because it was "in the best interest" of the university...

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• Colorado rape suit dropped.(University of Colorado)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-12-01

  Colorado Rape Suit Dropped--One of the students who sued the University of Colorado CU over an alleged rape at an off-campus football recruiting party has dropped her suit, the Associated Press reported. Monique Gillaspie, 21, said she dropped her suit because the "guerrilla warfare" in the...

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• Grand jury indicts recruiter involved in U. Colo. sex scandal.(University of Colorado)

  - 2004-09-01

  A former University of Colorado employee has been indicted on several charges related to actions he undertook to recruit football players. The university came under fire over a sex recruiting scandal earlier this year. Several women claimed they were raped at recruiting parties...

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