Posted on 10/09/2006 9:44:07 AM PDT by abb
How did a dummy such as Broadhead ever get his job?
credit where credit is due...
http://www.duke.edu/newpresident/steel_remarks.html
Comments By Robert K. Steel '73
Vice Chair, Duke University Board Of Trustees
Chair, Presidential Search Committee
and now...
http://dukenews.duke.edu/2005/05/steel.html
Durham Native Robert Steel Elected Chair of Duke Trustees
Strange, Steel left out the part where Brodhead got himself and Yale sued for deprivation of civil rights in a fact pattern strikingly similar to what happened here.
History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and hte second time as farce. WHich one is this?
You know, it has been a long time since we heard anything new about the Duke rape case. What has been happening? And why has none of it been in the news? If DA Nifong can't produce evidence after all of this hoopla, he should be sentenced to prison for the term that his accused would have been.
Steel is the guy who was quoted in the New Yorker article saying that it sent the wrong image to the world for the lacrosse team to continue to practice so, instead of standing up for what was right, they destroyed the team to get rid of the heat they were feeling. Maybe I should have his quote printed up on cards and distributed on this meeting they're going to have.
For everyone's edification, here's the quote and a link.
On that fitful weekend in late March when the TV satellite trucks hit campus, the lacrosse team could be seen practicing for the Georgetown game, a scene that became an endless video loop suggesting institutional indifference. “We had to stop those pictures,” Bob Steel says. “It doesn’t mean that it’s fair, but we had to stop it. It doesn’t necessarily mean I think it was right—it just had to be done.”
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060904fa_fact
More gobbledygook from Melanie...
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/editor/index.php?title=march_25_interview&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments
10/09/06 at 18:09
Linda, as the deputy managing editor over local news, and I, as editor, are responsible for news decisions. But other editors handled the various stories and specific news decisions mentioned above.
Folks, we are in the business of putting news in the paper, not keeping it out. We are not prone to being hounded into publishing something (or not publishing something) because someone pressures us. Please see my last comment. Please see our home page, keyword Duke lacrosse, for dozens of stories (inlcluding many that answer some of the questions above)
Thanks to all and especially to those who shared your names.
Meeoow .. . .
joan foster has already counterattacked.
Conspicuous by his absence, one of the finest sports writers of his generation
and Chronicle alumnus, the always outspoken Feinstein will be missed.
Duke's Handling of Lacrosse Mess Has Been Disastrous
Athletic Director Alleva, Vice President Trask Should Be Fired
By JOHN FEINSTEIN, AOL
http://articles.news.aol.com/sports/_a/dukes-handling-of-lacrosse-
mess-has-been/20041202125109990001
Exotic dancer reports rape
[crime log: Herald - Sun, Oct 9, 2006 : 10:46 pm ET ]
Durham police are investigating the alleged rape Saturday of an exotic dancer.
Warrants say a woman told police she was returning home from her job when two females jumped and robbed her while a man the victim knew by his nickname pointed a gun at her.
The victim also said the man with the gun agreed later to help her get her money back and escorted her to a Sandy Creek Drive residence, according to warrants.
Inside the house, the victim was raped, she told police. When she finally escaped, she ran to neighbors' houses and "banged on doors" asking someone to call 911, according to warrants.
The search warrant for the Sandy Creek Drive address yielded no apparent DNA evidence but did result in the seizure of two computers, two scanners, several digital cameras and more than 1,000 DVDs, according to warrants.
Hit-and-run car's owner sought
Police are asking for help in locating the owner of the 1988 Honda Accord that struck 22-year-old Caitlin Donnelly as she crossed South LaSalle Street at 11:53 p.m. Sept. 29.
Donnelly suffered severe head injuries and was taken to Duke University Hospital in critical condition.
A sheriff's deputy discovered the car, which is registered to Juan Carlos Lopez Barrera, several days later in the parking lot of a LaSalle Street apartment building.
Cpl. David Addison said Barrera may have information crucial to the investigation and is asking anyone with any knowledge of the incident or Barrera's whereabouts to contact Investigator M. Goodwin at 560-4314 or 475-2457.
Donnelly is listed in serious condition at Duke University Medical Center.
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-777142.html
Friends not endorsing any of 3 DA candidates
By WILLIAM F. WEST : The Herald-Sun bwest@heraldsun.com
Oct 9, 2006 : 9:51 pm ET
DURHAM -- The Friends of Durham isn't endorsing any of three contenders for Durham district attorney in the Nov. 7 election, the chairman of the political action committee says.
David Smith says he and his fellow questioners couldn't reach a decision after approximately 30-minute interviews with District Attorney Mike Nifong, County Commissioner Lewis Cheek and lawyer Steve Monks.
[snip]
"And we asked Mike Nifong, and one of his comments was that he's the only one that's interviewed this victim," Smith said. "And he feels confident in his case."
Although Nifong has never heard the woman tell her story, he believes her. He said in court last month that he met with her and detectives April 11 to discuss the judicial process. Nifong said she was too traumatized to speak about the incident.
And it obvious that the revelation flew right over both Bill and Dave's heads...
Brilliance....
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