{"id":69550,"date":"2014-11-28T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=69550"},"modified":"2014-11-28T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T07:09:15","slug":"university-massachusetts-cuts-ties-cosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=69550","title":{"rendered":"University of Massachusetts cuts ties to Cosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1417158373670_2259\">The University of Massachusetts-Amherst has cut ties with alumnus Bill Cosby amid allegations by women accusing him of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1417158373670_2257\">A university spokesman told the Boston Globe on Wednesday university officials had asked Cosby to step down as an honorary co-chairman of their $300 million fundraising campaign and Cosby agreed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1417158373670_2261\">Cosby received a master&#8217;s degree and a doctorate in education from the university. He and his wife donated several hundred thousand dollars to the university.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1417158373670_2263\">Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley sent a letter to the university urging it to cut ties with Cosby.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1417158373670_2265\">Coakley says while Cosby hadn&#8217;t been criminally charged his association sends the wrong message when the state is focused on the prevention of campus sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1417158373670_2207\">Cosby&#8217;s lawyer has called the allegations &#8220;unsubstantiated&#8221; and &#8220;discredited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Yahoo News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Massachusetts-Amherst has cut ties with alumnus Bill Cosby amid allegations by women accusing him of sexual assault. A university spokesman told the Boston Globe on Wednesday university officials had asked Cosby to step down as an honorary co-chairman of their $300 million fundraising campaign and Cosby agreed. Cosby received a master&#8217;s degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-69550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}