Little boxes made of ticky-tacky. The Communist dream.
Posted on 04/30/2006 8:41:33 PM PDT by OakOak
By WILLIAM YARDLEY Published: May 1, 2006
DURHAM, N.C., April 30 — North Carolina Central University does not have a lacrosse team. Students often cannot check out books from the main library, which is being renovated after a mold infestation. The business school is fighting to regain accreditation. Sixty percent of the students receive need-based financial aid. Eighty-one percent are black. Only 28 percent graduate after four years.
Just three miles from Duke University and its master-planned marriage of Gothic elegance and academic excellence, North Carolina Central, a rambling red-brick, historically black institution, is across the tracks, across the highway, across an immeasurable cultural divide. Or so goes the armchair anthropology.
Yet North Carolina Central is also engaged in an ambitious push to enhance its academics and its campus, to remake its image and its mission. At least $121 million in state spending in the last six years has brought new law and science buildings and dormitories, and more projects are planned.
The university is aggressively recruiting top minority students — sometimes competing for them against Duke — and pursuing a niche in biotechnology, hoping to take advantage of its location here next to Research Triangle Park. Enrollment is up to about 8,200, compared with about 5,400 just five years ago. Aspirations have risen, too.
Now, with the universities uncomfortably linked by a North Carolina Central student's accusations that she was raped by members of Duke's lacrosse team, which had hired her as an exotic dancer for a party, some officials, alumni and students at North Carolina Central say perceptions that their school is a struggling academic afterthought in Durham may be the hardest thing to change.
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They are interjecting this into a Gang-Rape case where 20 year olds are looking at sentences of 16-20 years. Find me a sympathetic story about Duke where, at least, they are paying for their education.
Duke is a private college, doesn't seem like the author understands that.
U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E. Poor NCCU. Will they do an expose on St. Augustine, Shaw, or Winston Salem State next?
I am sure the article is BS. I remember NC Central, at least I think that was the school which had perhaps the World's best 440 relay team back in the 70's.
I don't think they think Private colleges should be allowed. I've heard that argument in the past.
I've had diehard democrat liberals tell me they believe there should only be one model of house. That we should all live in the same type of house (fairness). But then, who decides what house (model) it is we're all going to live in, and who's going to pay for the house for drug addicts or addicts of any type?
I presumed that the accused Duke students were innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but after reading this article, I realize they must be guilty.
Now if the media was to be consistent with their hit pieces on the white males swaggering at Duke that don't value diversity,
So IF they were going to be CONSISTENT in their hit pieces, it would say:
Most students go to school on Gov't grants, yet they drive SUVs with Rims that cost thousands of dollars. They drive slowly on campus with the Bass Banging from expensive speakers. Expensive tatoos are brandished on bare arms and baggy pants are prevalent. They speak in code and are suspicious of outsiders. They band together and look out for each other..... etc. etc.
Again, I'm saying the Media has no problem whatsoever in stereotyping the Duke LAX players and using a broad brush to loop them all together, instead of treating them as individuals. And, the Media suspects and assumes the worst when it comes to the Duke players. Conversely, they assumed they could take the accusers at her word from day one. That she was an innocent victim forced into this type of work by the parents and forefathers of the Duke players.
Shabaz, the leader of the New Black Panther party links the Lacrosse players to the history of black women getting raped by white men TOTALLY IGNORING these boys were born arouhd 1986 - and the media let's it go out of news unchallenged.
You're too funny. LOL.
Did you notice how they slipped the word MASTER in there with
DUKE ?
"Just three miles from Duke University and its master-planned"
But there is no free lunch - you have to ignore their politics. If you like jazz, it is well worth it!
morning = before noon on left coast.
They also managed to work the word "plantation" into the article pertaining to Duke.
How on earth is this woman an "exotic" dancer? There is nothing the least bit "exotic" about this local skank. Or does she do her sex act with a hula skirt and castanetas?
I've turned on some Durham AM & FM stations and those people are outraged. Really outraged. Guess the MS Media feels they did there good deed by whipping up public sentiment in the Jury Pool against these players.
I'm not surprised about the good Jazz.
SirJohnBarleyCorn,
In regards to your 'Exotic' comment, I pointed out to the Raleigh N&O in an article about a week ago that they were being inconsistent.
The had an article about a club causing problems and the headline was "Strip Club Owner ..." I asked them why the owners are Strip Club owners and the people working there are dancers. I wonder why they didn't say 'Dance-Club' owner?
You are right about the plantation remark... Nothing like going back 145 when you're talking about 19 year old kids. When these kids where born, Oprah was the Highest Paid TV personality. The Cosby show was the number ONE TV show, and
his nickname was "America's Dad". The grew up watching Rap videos on MTV.
We all need to ask ourselves why the need to go back and mention the south, slavery, and priviledge in reporting of this case. Because they are trying to elicit an emotional response, a negative emotional response toward these players.
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky. The Communist dream.
Okay, remember this is the Country's largest paper going to the masses.
Not only do they slip Master and Plantation in there, but check this out:
"Master-planned marriage of Gothic..."
One of Websters definitions of Gothic is as follows:
6. gothic Barbarous; crude. AND
b. Germanic
You know about them Germans
Thank goodness they have attorneys that can run rings around Nifong and the media..ATM receipts can't lie.
Actually, a friend came to visit and he brought his new wife.
They stayed at our House and we took a little neighborhood walk; there was some Homes up the road that were opened in something they call around here, "The Parade of Homes," I suggested we go in because this house had some really neat features. She glared at her husband and when I said, what's wrong? That's when she explained her belief that everyone should live in the same house. I didn't even know what she was saying at first. I was shocked to find out that she (because I know her husband's politics) actually believed absolutely eveyone should live in one type of home.
I wanted to say well then what if one person landscapes his yard real nice - won't that be unfair? What if the kid in the barracks nextdoor has nicer jeans? But, he was a good friend and it seemed there was enough tension already.
When I told the story to my brother and his wife, my Sister-in-law told me she believed the same thing until she was around 30. She had heard the theory by a Professor in College.
Neverforget01,
I'm sure the media would view you as a lost cause.
They are going after the casual viewers and/or those predisposed to believe the inherent evil of the players and the inherent good of the VICTIM (Why do I feel pressured to call her a single Mother of 2 working her way through College?)
Communist theory is based on a flawed understanding of human nature, which is why it fails in every instance in which it is applied.
Like some sort of mold, communist theory is only able to thrive and propagate in an evironment, such as in American universities, where it is not exposed to the light and air of reality.
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