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The actual email, which can be found here, was sent within an hour of the woman who accused team members of rape left the house.

NCAA president says behavior at Duke party was inappropriate BOSTON (AP) -- NCAA president Myles Brand said behavior at a Duke men's lacrosse party last month was inappropriate, regardless of whether the alleged assault of an exotic dancer results in criminal charges. The dancer, a student at a nearby university, told police she was raped at the party by three men who restrained and choked her as she struggled to free herself from a bathroom. Investigators have collected DNA evidence from team members but no charges have been filed. A spokeswoman for North Carolina's attorney general's office said Tuesday the state's crime lab is still analyzing those samples. Brand said no assumptions about guilt or innocence should be made before the case runs its course. "Nonetheless, the situation that arose was inappropriate at best," he said in Boston, where he is attending the NCAA women's basketball championship game. "It is inappropriate that we should have any group of young men, let alone those who play on our athletic teams, inviting a stripper, underage alcohol and that kind of environment."

A photo provided by Duke University shows Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler, who resigned Wednesday, April 5, 2006, the same day the school canceled the rest of the season amid a burgeoning scandal involving allegations that three players raped a stripper at an off-campus party. (AP Photo/Duke University, Jon Gardiner)

The mention of the green Honda is interesting. Perhaps the two strippers arrived in separate cars (given that they were from different escort agencies) but left together in a single car (the one driven by Kim, the second stripper) after the physical altercation. When the police arrived at Kroger, perhaps the strippers told the police that the first stripper had left her car, a green Honda, at the house and that they didn't feel safe in going back to get it. When the police then went back to the house, they therefore especially noted the presence of the green Honda, thereby corroborating to some extent the strippers' story, and this would explain the pointed reference to the green Honda in the affidavit.