My type? What type is that? The type that doesn't think that students don't have a God given right to play lacrosse? The type that remembers that the team offered to sit until the DNA results came back, so they would out in any case until yesterday? I think the DA's actions have been extremely unethical in this case. He has tried these young men in press, yet he has yet to charge a single person. He has made promises regarding DNA, then has moved the goalposts once the tests did not come back in his favor. He is clearly exploiting this case in order to win election. I don't believe that these players are guilty of rape, the DNA tests are too conclusive to think otherwise. But the fact of the matter is, Duke was put in a tough situation. The DA leaked his case to the media, who ran with it. Duke couldn't put its head in the sand and pretend this is going away by saying nothing while getting battered in the press for weeks, especially during this time with acceptance letters are out and students are choosing to come or not.
Duke is in the real world, where one story, one rumor no matter how untrue, can linger for decades, particularly when we're talking about 1) rape and 2)race. The adminstration had to make the appearance of a response.
Lacrosse has nothing to do with anything here, and repeated references to it, or to football, or baseball, or chess for that matter, are irrelevant and only serve to muddy the issue...which, from your earlier posts, seemed at minimum to be your goal.
Duke was NOT in any sort of tough situation, were it a normal institution. Wait for the investigation, no problem.
Unfortunately, the assumption that Duke is a 'normal' institution is false-to-fact. It may still have some broad educational function in one or another graduate school, but it is now thoroughly and apodeictically, in the undergraduate school, an institution dedicated to propagandising, to spreading PC and PC-ish doctrines, even by force of authority.
And this grotesque transformation, clearly the doing of the administration and faculty, extends -- as we have just seen -- to Duke's completely defalcative behaviour regarding the falsely accused students.
An **honourable** institution, academic or any other, would have called out the DA immediately, and waved the Constitution right in the b*st*rd's face.
Duke didn't. It failed to demonstrate that that institution upholds either the Constitution or traditional American legal values. Pure and simple, and no way to argue otherwise.
In future, please spare the straw man arguments about some sort of mystical 'right' to play lacrosse: there isn't one, we both agree on it, said mystical right has not been assumed by anyone I've seen on this thread, and the playing of lacrosse has nothing whatever to do with the matter at hand.
Good night.