If I may editorialize here a bit, I think we're all on the same page. We know who the enemy is and we're mad as hell. Sometimes we take our frustrations out on each other and that's understandable. Part of why that is that we want something to happen but the "justice" system moves with glacial speed.
My heart breaks for SDP and his/her daughter. I have a college age daughter and if she was in a similar situation, I would be crazy with grief, fear, anger and all the emotions in between. And I'm sure SDP has done all he/she possibly could have to fix the situation.
But SDP you need to know this: Free Republic was THE FIRST bulletin board or blog to call bullsh%t on this hoax back on March 29, with the exception of the team members, their families and their attorneys. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE in the DriveBy Media was on our side. And JLS has pretty much been here since early April, on our side.
So what needs to be done about Duke after this hoax is dropped? IMO, Brodhead and some of the faculty need to go. And its up to the alumni to make it happen, otherwise some other set of parents will have to go through all this again.
JLS thinks the way to do that is to send your kids to another school and if enough parents do that, the administration will finally get the message. Some others may want to try and work from within the system.
I don't know which is the better way to go, but I DO KNOW we here at Free Republic are on the side of justice, because I've been here since early April, too. Every day...
Break-in, assault reported at Belmont,
The Chronicle, 9/13/06.
by Saidi Chen.
A student who lives at The Belmont apartment complex reported being assaulted Monday night.
A 21-year-old female student told Durham Police Department officials that she was assaulted Monday night when an unidentified man illegally entered her off-campus apartment.
The assailant attempted to strangle the woman in the 10,000 building at The Belmont apartment complex but fled the residence before police arrived, she said.
The officer who responded said poor lighting in the Belmont complex delayed Durham Police officers' response.
The woman said she returned to her apartment around 11 p.m. and, without locking the front door, entered her bathroom to change her clothes.
The man came into the apartment shortly after and attempted to open the bathroom door, she said.
"He had a long, black cord and came in and dragged me out of the bathroom into the hallway--I was completely naked," the student told The Chronicle. "He told me to lie down on the floor, he took the cord and... tried to strangle me with it."
"He kept telling me not to move, and I asked him what he wanted and he told me, 'You know what I want,'" she added.
The woman, who The Chronicle has chosen not to identify because of the sexual nature of the alleged assault, said she offered the man money and valuables, and he let her go into her bedroom to check how much cash she had.
Once there, she locked the doors and called 911. She also sent instant messages to male friends who live nearby.
"I didn't hear anything from him after I locked myself in my room," the student said. "I stayed in my room until the cops got there... 15 or 20 minutes later."
The suspect had fled the scene by the time DPD officers arrived.
"When I arrived, the suspect was no longer on scene and the canvas [of the surrounding area] proved to be futile," said DPD officer Shawn Stone, the first to respond.
The suspect is a slim, black male who is approximately 5-foot-10. He was wearing basketball shorts and a t-shirt.
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Duke brings in new student athlete liason
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