Former student accused of rape sues university

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'A former Clark University student who was allegedly kicked off campus this past spring after being accused of rape is suing the school and several of its administrators, court records show.

The plaintiff, John Doe, claims in the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Worcester on Tuesday that Clark led a biased inquiry into the charges against him, denying him rights promised in the university’s own student handbook and dismissing key phone records that supported his innocence.

Mr. Doe is a Connecticut resident and was a freshman at Clark last year. In a 29-page lawsuit he said he and his accuser had had a consensual sexual encounter in January that the female student reported as a rape to the university three months afterwards. The charge came at a time when an anti-sexual assault campaign on campus “was at its peak,” which Mr. Doe claims created an environment prejudiced against males accused of rape.'