I don't think I would call them "boys", or feel that sorry for them. Just like the alledged victim was in the wrong place, at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, so were these men.
If they had more character they wouldn't be partying this hard and getting into trouble. There's a reason why one should not behave in that fashion.
I'm afraid they have earned the cloud that surrounds them. Perhaps they will have learned that now. Then again, perhaps not.
Fortunately, the vast majority here have their priorities straight, and choose not to join in with the screeching feminists and race baiters in condemning these young men.
"I don't think I would call them "boys", or feel that sorry for them."
2 of the accused were 19 at the time of the accusation.
Would you prefer I call them teenagers as opposed to boys?
These boys have been accused of a serious crime and one of the main contentions of the defense is that at least 2 have strong alibi's that state they were not at the party!
Yet, you offer no sympathy for these 3 who have been slandered and whose reputations have been damaged based on the say-so of an accuser who is truth challenged.
Come on. What do you mean, party hard. The drank beer and had parties with high grades. Don't just repeat the lines from media. The police searched high and low the house and the dorm rooms and no drugs whatsoever. How many twenty year old men do you know who don't drink beer. Did you drink beer when you were twenty, I did.
The did make a mistake inviting a skanky stripper, but this whole party hard thing is a media fabrication. did they party harder than other students, louder, perhaps, but to protray these incredibly high achieving Duke students who were succeeding both academically and athletically beyond what 99% of the people in the world can do (and more than the nccu critics) is just false.
Judge not...