As an attorney, former Div 1 player and now Junior coach, I'd like to comment: Everything wrong with Universities today can be found in this one story. Div 1 Lacrosse has the highest graduation rate in college sports.
First the p.c. (I prosecute white boys too!) wing nut prosecutor publically expressed confidence in a case barely under investigation(the buffoon still thinks he has a case(LOL)!
University president puts out p.c. comments that prejudice the criminal charges and slander the young men entrusted to him. Next he fires the coach (a super guy, who I played against for years). No doubt Pressler knew what kind of "can't we get along with our multicultural community" cowardly bureaucrats he was dealing with.
Then the knee jerk ultra liberal campus newspaper and all the campus feminists, who consider lacrosse barbaric (and the players barbarians), come out of the woodwork and make all the papers.
Then the professional race baiters come out to rally and capitalize.
These clowns in the Duke administration get what they deserve. I hope all 47 are on scholarship elsewhere playing in 07' and that Duke Lacrosse never returns. The University doesn't deserve it! On the other hand, neither do any of the other D1 lacrosse schools: most are top east coast academic schools, with left wing agendae, who would act the same way as Duke.
Kudos to the parents for keeping mum!
The word that I haven't seen used in this story - but should be - is "lynching." What we've seen here by the media and the "legal commentary community" and the race hustlers, is a modern day lynching.
You'll recall Clarence Thomsas' use of the term "high tech lynching" during his confirmation hearings...
Agree will all your remarks except one. Duke lax needs to return in full force or that means the idiots have won.