I agree with Chesire. I think it clearly shows that, at least in Madfadyen's mind, he believes they were wronged by the strippers and have an unsatisfied grievance against strippers, rather than vice versa. One would think that would not be the case had the partygoers beaten and raped the strippers and recovered their money.
It was only through reporters and articles that he learned his daughter told police she had been threatened with assault with a broomstick
I find it rather odd that the father considers this worth mentioning if his daughter was actually beaten, strangled, raped and sodomized.
"For example, some women and black students have reported feeling stressed when they are expected to speak for or defend the perspective of women and/or the black community"
So while white students are being beaten unconscious at nearby restaurants by local blacks because they're considered representative of "Duke rapists", what's troubling the perfessers is the "stress" felt by black and women students when talking about the incident.
We're pretty good on academic discipline," Haagen said. "Our standards are pretty clear. But have we got this right on social discipline?
Baker, who attended a tense, closed-door faculty meeting Thursday, said that in 38 years of teaching, he had never seen professors more angry -- and more willing to pitch in to help Duke make reforms and restore its reputation.
"Social discipline" of students by today's administrators and faculty? In the 1960s universities said they would no longer act as in loco parentis and try to uphold standards of social and moral decorum among college students, and thus we now have the libertine campus of today, awash in sex, drugs, alcohol and what have you.
However, I think it would actually be worse if today's administrators and faculties, with their neomarxist belief system, tried to reimpose social order on college campuses, because it would consist of little more than the persecution of whites, males, heterosexuals and Christians.
Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Duke University's lacrosse coach resigned Wednesday and the school canceled the rest of the season amid a scandal involving allegations that three players raped a stripper at an off-campus party.
Mike Pressler spent 16 seasons at Duke and won three Atlantic Coast Conference championships. Last year, his team appeared in the national championship game. "Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon, and I accepted it," said Duke athletic director Joe Alleva. "I believe this is in the best interests of the program, the department of athletics and the university."
The rape allegations have roiled the campus and the city of Durham, raised racial tensions and heightened the long-standing antagonism between the privileged students at the elite university and the poorer people of Durham.
The stripper is black and said her attackers were white. Investigators and witnesses have said the lacrosse players taunted her with racial slurs and insults.
Students and townspeople have marched on campus and off, angry over the school's handling of the allegations and the team members' refusal to cooperate with police. Investigators said the athletes are sticking together and keeping silent.