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Last week, a group of white lacrosse players at Duke University were accused of raping, sodomizing, robbing, kidnapping, and strangling a local African-American college student who had been hired as a dancer at one of their parties. In the following days, several national media outlets covered the story, and Duke turned into a full-fledged circus. Reporters swarmed Durham, N.C., articles flooded newspapers, the region was blanketed in extensive television coverage, and vigils and protests abound in the state. District Attorney Michael Nifong has not helped the situation and has exacerbated the atmosphere by making public inflammatory remarks about...
...turmoil over recent rape allegations aimed at Duke men’s lacrosse team has brought an immense amount of negative attention to that institution’s athletic department. For a school that has long been held up as striking an excellent balance between athletics and academics while avoiding the transgressions that have often marred programs at other big-time schools, this attention is new and exceptionally disappointing. Duke teams have often been held up as a model of how college athletics should be; an academically great institution fielding teams from which most players graduate...
...fact I’m Caucasian,” Fawaz said. “I talked to some friends of mine, and this happened to them as well. We were all very confused by it.” Other erroneous acceptance e-mails have been sent from Cornell, Duke, and the University of Georgia. At Cornell in early 2003, early-decision applicants who were already rejected were accidentally sent a welcome e-mail two months later. At the end of that same year, Duke University made the opposite mistake. It told dozens of successful early applicants that they had been...
...other former college head on the committee is Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, a past president of Wellesley College and Duke University. A lawyer who specializes in intellectual property litigation, William F. Lee ’72, will also hold a spot on the committee. Lee was an aide to the independent counsel who investigated Reagan administration officials’ involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal, and he is now the co-managing partner of the law firm WilmerHale. He joined the Board of Overseers...
...sweep, since the team captains told prosecutors that not every player was at the party. Even outraged students and alums like Hopman are urging people not to prematurely judge the players. "We are all Blue Devils in the end," she says. Good teamwork can still bring Duke together. Even when it's tearing it apart...