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NEWS ABOUT: prep schools

prep schools stories: 8 news summaries

Conn. Boarding School Sued Over Molester Dean

Kids at man's apartment at 'all hours': lawyer

Aug 21, 09 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Connecticut boarding school has been hit with two lawsuits over a former dean’s alleged sexual abuse of students he is charged with having as "overnight guests" in his apartment, the Danbury News-Times reports. The now-fired dean at The Gunnery School was charged Aug. 5 with sexual assault,... More »

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children • sexual abuse • donation • prep schools • sexual assault • boarding school

New Sex Scandal
Rocks Oprah School


Mar 31, 09 3:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new sex scandal has hit Oprah Winfrey's elite girls school in South Africa, the second in less than two years, reports the New York Daily News. Seven students have been suspended for sexually harassing classmates, including bullying students and "physical contact of a sexual nature," said a... More »

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sexual harassment • South Africa • Oprah Winfrey • Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls • prep schools • sexual assault

(Newser) - Authorities at an elite Boston high school found themselves yesterday in the bizarre position of having to publicly deny that certain students were vampires, the Globe reports. While vampires have been popping up more often in popular culture recently, officials and law enforcement say Boston Latin’s issue is most... More »

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Boston • bullying • prep schools • vampire • Howard Stern Grid

 Expelled Girl Sues 
 Prep School, Alleges Cult 

Case provides look inside glamorized world

Mar 22, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s a tale worthy of Gossip Girl: A popular student at a posh prep school who was expelled says she was harassed by a secret society of girls that the school and alumnae deny exists anymore. But ex-student Tatum Bass is slapping Ms Porter's with an all-too-real lawsuit,... More »

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Connecticut • lawsuit • expel • student • prep schools

NYC Prep Student Leaps to Death Into Recess Crowd

Fourth-graders out playing as body plunges to ground

Feb 19, 09 3:23 AM CST
(Newser) - A 17-year-old student at an elite Manhattan prep school leapt to his death from an eleventh-story classroom window yesterday, reports the New York Daily News. His plunging body narrowly missed a group of fourth graders playing in front of the Dalton School. "I heard a loud bang," said... More »

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suicide • New York City • Manhattan • recess • academics • prep schools • students • Dalton School

FASHION REVIEW

Rapper's Old-School Fashion Line Far From OutKast

Andre 3000 designs label for mod preppy

Oct 2, 08 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - With a nostalgic collection far more ambitious than those of most celebrity designers, rapper/actor André Benjamin—aka André 3000, half of the duo OutKast—looks “like Ralph Lauren having a Steampunk moment,” Eric Wilson writes in the New York Times. The Benjamin Bixby collection, “inspired by Ivy... More »

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fashion • hip-hop • Fashion Week • rapper • fashion label • prep schools • Outkast • André Benjamin

Racist Hate Mail Probed at NH Prep School

'Bang bang get out,' threaten letters sent
to black students

Feb 21, 08 3:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Police, the FBI, and the US Postal Service are investigating hate mail sent to black students at an elite prep school, the New York Times reports. Sources say students at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire received letters containing their photos from the school's directory with the words "bang... More »

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New Hampshire • racism • student • prep schools • hate mail • St. Paul's School

Prep Schools' Endowments Skyrocket

Institutions aim to fund needy students, top-notch facilities 

Jan 26, 08 1:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Endowments at the nation’s elite prep schools have exploded over the past decade, mirroring the trend at top colleges, reports the New York Times. America’s older schools have fared best: the endowment of Phillips Exeter Academy in NH has broken $1 billion, double its amount in 2002, while... More »

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wealth • financial aid • private schools • endowment • prep schools • Philips Exeter

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