"And Duke stepped up its game, retaining Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations firm that has helped polish the reputations of some of America's largest corporations.
"They brought in a bunch of people who have been essentially training groups of 10 to 12 administrators, faculty and students to talk to the media. They've been pre-positioning these people to latch on to the TV crews coming through," one source says.
"Butch" Williams graduated from the North Carolina Central University in 1976, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the North Carolina Central University School of Law in 1979.