Good catch. Adds weight to the view that Duke could give flying hoot about the students; the only thing that mattered were their own sorry rear ends.
I recall that comment from Steel -- I knew these boys were in deep trouble when he said it because their so-called leaders are not exactly stand up guys. Of course, my father was a veteran of the Korean War, and his character standard is whether you want a person next to you in a foxhole when the Chinese artillery started coming in . . .
"When all of the facts are in, Duke will be judged by how it responded to the challenges before us. The trustees recognize these challenges and pledge our personal and collective support over the coming weeks to ensure that Duke University responds in a manner consistent with the great institution we know it to be."
RE: to which a recent blog commentor said:
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Unless things change remarkably, this line from the movie "A Knight's Tale" will be (is??) all too applicable:
"You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting."
To paraphrase the last part of that exchange in the movie:
'In what world could you possibly think that your utter failure to offer 'personal and collective support' is 'consistent with the great institution [you] know it to be'?
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LOL, I love that movie, and that exchange, so I now have a new tagline for dukelax threads! ;>)