Posted on 05/24/2006 7:36:30 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The Duke women's lacrosse team retains strong ties to the men's team currently embroiled in rape allegations.
The women plan to wear sweatbands that say "innocent" when they play Northwestern in the Final Four on Friday in Boston, The Durham Herald-Sun reported Wednesday.
"Obviously we want to win a national championship for ourselves, but definitely also for the university and the men's team," junior Leigh Jester told the paper. "They don't really have a chance to play their season, which is a shame.
"We'd love to bring it home not only for ourselves, but also for them."
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...
Win,lose or draw in the finals, these gutsy gals are already champions in my opinion.
Kick butt, Ladies!
Girls w/ balls. I mean you play lacrosse with balls, right?
Good stuff. Unfortunately they won't be on Oprah, the View, or Elen Degeneress like they would if they supported the lying sleazebag that is being chauferred around on the taxpayer's dollar.
I think the names of the 88 faculty members are listed here along with their departments.
http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/listening.pdf
Perfect, thanks.
I think the women's lacrosse move is important. One chilling feature of this fiasco is the willingness of the Duke administration to form into a cheering section for the persecution of their own students. If the students turn on the administration (It seems like they ought to) there is a lot of previously unknown stuff that will emerge.
1) Exactly who, in law enforcement, actually accepted this story first? Duke Police or Durham Police? This matters because the two forces are likely to have gotten different training and have different experience. Duke police get massively pro-woman training and supervision. Durham police see real-life prostitutes and their behavior patterns. Duke police don't.
2) Where did they go with the story? Duke PD higher-ups or Durham PD higher-ups? Duke is going to push this story with little regard for plausibility. PC demands it. A Duke mid-level administrator is going to believe a report of this type by reflex.
3) Did the Duke administration get this info before Nifong? (I know that there is a report about this matter, Bowen report maybe, but it is unsatisfactory to anybody who knows how colleges and their security forces actually work.) If Duke called Nifong, or Nifong's wife, or Nifong's wife's friends, or whatever, this thing might make a little more sense.
4) How and when did Nifong himself get on the case? Who actually called him? Why? One explanation is that Nifong got off on the wrong foot and never could right himself. Others think Nifong is corrupt or evil instead. If we take the wrong-foot possibility first, it would be nice to know how he got so screwed up.
5) Emotionally, I can see little profit in demonstrating one prosecutor to be a fool or a knave. It would be kind of cool to see the Duke administration bear the consequences of a lazy endorsement of a feminist stereotype, when they should have been standing by their students and proclaiming their belief in their good character until bad character is proved.
6) I still have the hope that college students across the country will stand up to oppressive PC Party Commissars and reject the costly anti-male, anti-white, anti-US, anti-religious stereotypes that make college life so miserable for so many.
Unbelieveable!!
Funny article. The admissions people are lying through their teeth when they say they're not hurt. They know darn well this fiasco has hurt them.
If they're so selective why do they have to dip so far into their waiting list this year? UNC and Emory don't have to.
If this case continues and there is rioting in Durham then Duke will have a 'summer melt' like they have never seen before. The alumni have to be furious!
ESPN is POS. After they sucked off Barry Bonds, they dare to berate the Lax gals:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/quickie
Duke Lacrosse Update
The Duke women's lacrosse team made news when it was reported that some team members will sport sweatbands saying "Innocent" during the women's NCAA Tournament.
Here are five alternative suggestions for one-word slogans that might have been more appropriate:
"Embarrassing": It's an appropriate way to thank the men's team for turning the name "Duke lacrosse" into a punch line.
"Focused": To the women wearing the signage: Are you more concerned with making some big look-at-me statement ... or winning a title?
"Misogyny": Because regardless of the criminal charges, by backing their male counterparts, that's effectively what they're supporting.
"Flip-Flops": Ah, remember the good old days when the biggest scandal in college lacrosse was when the 2005 women's champs from Northwestern wore flip-flops on their visit to the White House?
"Rozelle": Super Bowl XX? Jim McMahon? Anyone? Anyone? (Or have I dated myself?)
In high school, I once wore a suspended teammate's name on my jersey as a show of "solidarity." To this day, I am embarrassed I did it.
Semi-final: May 26, at Boston University's Nickerson Field 6pm
Final (if they win): May 28, at Boston University's Nickerson Field
One thing about college administrators--
By the standards of the commercial world, college administration is an incredibly lazy business. I've been at budget meetings where the budget officer didn't even print a copy of the budget or the previous year's actuals for the faculty attending.
Brodhead had time in front of the camera on a university-critical matter involving the behavior of the lacrosse team and had farmed out the report on the lacrosse team to a professor who didn't turn it in until a week after Brodhead's press conference. (Maybe I have the facts wrong here, but that sure is what the sequence looked like from here.)
He had obviously cleared his talking points with representatives of his PC faculty, and his pro-woman counseling and sexual-assault people, but I doubt seriously that he appointed someone to critique his notes from the lacrosse point of view, or the admissions point of view, or the conservative faculty (yes, even at Duke) point of view.
On this site we tend to view this as well-explained by political bias. It is really best explained by deep-to-the-bone laziness. I'd say Brodhead just didn't think to listen to any wheels that hadn't squeaked much recently.
I am fairly certain that after that article some of those headbands will read "ESPN Sucks"
Coast Watchers....gotta love that!
Here is an article I came across:
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/14671516.htm
There's a story in today's NYT as well. It's behind their subscription wall, but here's the capsule of what's there for all to see...
Sports of The Times
TimesSelect At Duke, Freedom of Speech Seems Selective
By HARVEY ARATON
Character witnesses for three Duke lacrosse players charged with the rape of a woman hired to dance at a team party in March will be heard from in that judicial style unique to jock world — sworn sanctimony by sweatband.
Not too hard which side this story is on w/o even reading it.
BTW, on yet ANOTHER ESPN talk show yesterday, two more journalists aggreed that calling the accused players "innocent" is beyond the pale because of the seriousness of the charges.
Check out another article:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/14687063.htm
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