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Vanderbilt football team apologizes for ‘don’t need your permission’ tweet

August 6, 2015 admin attitude-toward, australia, brandon, brandon-banks, dixons-carphone, entire, football-team, fourth, overs-at-trent, permission, raised-concerns, sold-out-crowd, sydney, test-prompted, trent-bridge

(Reuters) – Vanderbilt University’s football team apologized for tweeting on Thursday “we don’t need your permission,” a phrase that raised concerns about its attitude toward sexual assault two years after four former players were first accused of rape. The full tweet, which has since been removed from the team’s Twitter account, read: “We are relentless, tough and intelligent and …” above a graphic that read, “We don’t need your permission.” “We apologize for today’s tweet.