Comedian Bill Cosby Bows Out as Temple University Trustee

Comedian Bill Cosby has resigned from the board of trustees of Temple University, his alma mater said in a statement on Monday, after the entertainer was hit with a wave of sexual assault accusations. More than a dozen women have come forward in the past few weeks with accusations that Cosby, 77, sexually assaulted them as far back as the 1960s. Patrick O'Connor, chairman of the Philadelphia university's board of trustees, said Cosby called him on Monday to resign. “He...

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