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...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...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Duke Scandal Raises Issues | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Kan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Avoids Admissions Faux Pas | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: President Search To Include Students | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...alleged racial slurs have pitted Durham, a town that is 44% black, against Duke, where only 11% of the undergraduate students are black. A woman called 911 the night of the party and said a man called her a racial epithet as she passed by the house where the alleged rape took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fraternity of Silence | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fraternity of Silence | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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