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Duke University officials were slow to respond to the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team because Durham police officials doubted the accuser and grossly underestimated the seriousness of the allegations, according to a report released on Monday by a special committee formed to examine the administration's role in the incident...
...According to the new report, members of the Durham police initially made comments to Duke police officers and others to the effect that the accuser "kept changing her story and was not credible" and that if charges were brought, "they would be no more than misdemeanors" and that this would "blow over." The report suggests that the comments by Durham police officers were one reason Duke officials were so slow to respond to the incident. It found no cover-up by Duke officials but did find a communication gap among Duke administrators...
...March 14, the day after the alleged rape occurred, Duke Police Director Robert Dean told Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek about the previous night's incident and the Durham police's comments. Dean did not mention that the woman was African American. The committee found it "extraordinary" that no one in a senior position at Duke, including President Richard Brodhead, knew the racial aspects involved in the incident until March 24. Duke Police also did not pass along information about a 911 phone call in which a woman complained of racial slurs coming...
...report found that it was a "major mistake" by Duke police, Wasiolek and others to take at face value the comments of Durham police officers that the accuser was "not credible." That assessment affected not only senior administrators' perception of the incident but also that of the players who "may have been lulled into a false sense of security...
...exclusive club. Any group that separates itself from daily contact with the faithful violates the teaching that the faithful form one body in Christ with the good of each communicated to others. Shame on the Vatican for encouraging the divisive work of Opus Dei. Daneen Warner Durham, North Carolina, U.S. It's puzzling that people join Opus Dei to live their faith on a daily basis. Anyone can do so without joining an esoteric group. One simply has to attend to the daily liturgy of the church, pray regularly, be sincere in trying to live a good life and become...