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...Well, she is a stripper.” Blaming the victim and using her occupation to destroy her credibility cannot be condoned. But typecasting 46 individuals as unsurprisingly racist rapists and juxtaposing them with a diligent student, single mother of two? Not an unrelated evil. JANE CHONG Durham, N.C. April 12, 2006 The writer is a freshman at Duke University...
...bearing on their clients' culpability. "The police said [the new e-mail] came from a confidential informant, but we have reason to believe it came from the police, hoping it would make all the players nervous," says one defense lawyer. "That didn't work." A spokesperson at the Durham Police Department would not comment on the allegations of a setup, and said she would not forward TIME's inquiries to any of her superiors over the holiday weekend. No one at the Durham County District Attorney's Office could be reached for comment Friday...
...Response received 61 reports of individuals who experienced some form of sexual violence. Rape is not endemic to any one gender, sexual orientation, race, intellect, institution, geographic location, or class; there is no quality that provides immunity to sexual assault. The media’s coverage of the Durham community has also been called into question. For example, The New York Times was criticized for reporting that players were out at a bar while other students held vigils for victims of sexual violence. It so happens that last week coincided with Take Back the Night (TBTN), a time to raise...
...which “Harvard athletics are administered helps to avoid the entitlement issues seen at other schools” is an assumption at best. The campus-wide protests against the actions of a few of these athletes indicate that Duke students are just as angry and upset as Durham residents, and that no lacrosse player is receiving any special treatment, before or after this incident. I urge Hinshelwood and other Harvard students to talk to their friends at Duke, instead of reading sensationalized media coverage, in order to understand the real issues at hand that are affecting our campus...
...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 the players. Ultimately, this case is solely about an alleged...