James Van de Velde, From Pariah Back to Pillar

But it was not scholarship that made him a famous name on college campuses in the late 1990s. It was the killing of one of his students, a death in which he alone was named as a suspect. Though he was never charged with a crime, he went, in the words of one local headline, “from pillar to pariah.” </P>Mr. Van de Velde’s long legal battle to clear his name has taken many turns, and now has reached something of a conclusion. On Monday, he, Yale and the City of New Haven said they had

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