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May 09, 2006
Duke's First Mistake
According to this article was thinking the accusations of rape at a Duke lacrosse party would blow over.
Duke underestimated the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team in part because Durham police initially said the accuser "kept changing her story and was not credible," according to a university report issued Monday.
The day after the March 13 team party where a 27-year-old black woman claimed she was raped, Durham police told campus officers that "this will blow over," the report said. It said that the woman initially told police she was raped by 20 white men, then said she was attacked by three.
Police told the Duke officers that if any charges were filed, "they would be no more than misdemeanors," the report said.
Of course, many of us following this story think that Duke's first mistake was cancelling games and then the season. Since then, they've continued to make mistakes in their effort to be sufficiently PC. Note the provenance of this report:
The report was commissioned by the Duke president and prepared by Julius Chambers, a former chancellor at North Carolina Central University, where the accuser is a student, and William G. Bowen, a former president of Princeton University who is now head of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Well, let's see, you have the former chancellor of the accuser's school preparing the report; is there any doubt they're going to err on the side of the accuser?
Posted by pat at May 9, 2006 10:27 AM
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I haven't followed this "story" very closely, but didn't they cancel the games because of the known behavior of the players? eg. underage drinking parties, hiring strippers, etc.?
Posted by: paul at May 9, 2006 02:46 PM