Duke Forfeits Lacrosse Games After Rape Accusation

WRAL ^ | March 26, 2006

[Ninian Dryhope]

Boys will be boys.

What does a dancer have to do with the games?

[mbx1231]

You're an idiot.

[admiralsn]

Idiot doesn't begin to describe what you are.

[admiralsn]

Sorry, my apologies.

My statement, Idiot doesn't begin to describe what you are, should have been directed at Ninian Dryhope.

[Man50D]

Boys will be boys. What does a dancer have to do with the games?

You must be the Duke coach.

[Ninian Dryhope]

You must be a genius.

[Pikachu_Dad]

That's a huge lacrosse team. 46 players. They only need eleven on the field at a time.

Surely they could have narrowed the field down a bit through witness statements, instead of taking DNA from all 46.

[MineralMan]

"Boys will be boys.
"

Right. And when the boys rape the girls, they get to be the girls in prison. Fair's fair.

[Galveston Grl]

It is not alright IF they did rape the stripper at their party.

On the other hand, this woman had to be nuts to go to a college athletic drinking party and strip off her clothing and tease a bunch of drunk guys who are in the prime of their sex hormones and aggression. How utterly stupid is that?

She should not have been raped just as the nut who stands out in the middle of a highway should not be hit by a car or a person who builds a house on the coast should not be destroyed by a hurricane. But some actions are irresponsible because they open one up to risk of harm. That would be the stripper who went to the men's college lax party, in this case.

[Neverforget01]

She set them up big time..Rich lacrosse players who were dumb enough ...The civil suits alone will be staggering..For supposedly bright kids, they sure were dumb AND they broke the law...

[Galveston Grl]

She did not set them up. They set themselves up by calling in a stripper and she set herself up by going. Being rich does not make one immune to the temptation of rape. Being a stripper is shows a lack of self respect which might explain why she showed up at a college LAX party to take her clothes off.

[MrBlueSky2005]

Wow...I seriously hope thats sarcasm. For what its worth, I've been an RA here at Ohio State on floors with both freshman basketball players (including Mr. Ohio Basketball one year) and freshman lacross players. While the Lacross players I have this year are good guys, they are the exception. In general I'd take the basketball players any day of the week.

[Bubbatuck]

She should not have been raped just as the nut who stands out in the middle of a highway should not be hit by a car or a person who builds a house on the coast should not be destroyed by a hurricane.

Wow... what an idiotic statement. The crazy person who stands in the middle of the road takes a great risk, but NOT the general risk that someone will intentionally run him down. The risk is that a person will accidentally hit him. I played Lacrosse years ago, and I went to college - never during that time did I accidentally rape a woman. The notion that a dancer at a party deserves to be raped is an idea I thought died out 40 years ago. Your view is reprehensible. These punks oughtta be put away for a very long time.

[Bubbatuck]

She should not have been raped just as the nut who stands out in the middle of a highway should not be hit by a car or a person who builds a house on the coast should not be destroyed by a hurricane.

"The temptation of rape"? I assure you, there is no such thing in a man who is not otherwise criminally inclined.

[TeddyCon]

But some actions are irresponsible because they open one up to risk of harm.

...and a salaam a lakem.

[Ninian Dryhope]

So far the only thing that has been admitted is that the boys hired dancers for the party and that underage drinking occurred, which is pretty normal for college kids. Everything else is still under investigation and is based on the allegations of a person of dubious character.

[Ninian Dryhope]

So far the only thing that has been admitted is that the boys hired dancers for the party and that underage drinking occurred, which is pretty normal for college kids. Everything else is still under investigation and is based on the allegations of a person of dubious character.

[Ninian Dryhope]

You are not comparing the folks at Duke with those at diploma mill Ohio State, are you?

[7thson]

I do not see her statement as idiotic. In the military we are told to use locks on our lockers to keep honest people honest. What you do is remove the temptation. I did not get that Galveston Grl was saying this woman deserved to be raped. I understood her to say that because of her profession and the environment she put herself in, it should come as no surprise this happened. It is still wrong but it is not as shocking as say the lacrosse players broke into a womens dorm at Duke and raped left and right.