What'll you bet the university somehow finds this "inapprpriate" and forbids it?
I think the stripper and her criminal boyfriend just wanted to scam money from the team, but the situation got spun out of control by a power hungry DA who wanted to seal up the black vote. He won at the expense of three innocent (and wealthy) white boys. The race baiting opportunity was Satan's gift to him.
The DA is a democrat. The end justifies the means.
That's a pretty ballsy move for a bunch of chicks. Good for them.
Interesting article.
Bravo girls! Good luck on the game.
Brava, ladies!
This may offend some, but I can remember when I was in school (many years ago) you always had to watch out for the "townies". Seems like this is the case here.
Raise hell ladies!!!
I have 3 lax players in my family. Hats off to the Duke women's lax team. Innocent until proven guilty, eh?
Thanks for finding this. Good for them!!
Related article on ESPN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2456262
The school has no objection. The sweatbands will be on the players arms and legs.
Win,lose or draw in the finals, these gutsy gals are already champions in my opinion.
Kick butt, Ladies!
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.
Semi-final: May 26, at Boston University's Nickerson Field 6pm
Final (if they win): May 28, at Boston University's Nickerson Field