Lately the talk on CNN has been about drinking and name calling by evidently drunk students,,,
"Drunk college students ! Shocking! They weren't 21 either! This has been going on for 5 years! They've had trouble with that house before! Where there's smoke...
and
"They engaged in name-calling. When you use that certain word you open the door to chaos...."
At least they didn't find any tobacco on the premisses. Or maybe they did but the school-- founded on a tobacco fortune,("thank you for smoking, yankees!" )supressed this evidence.
If the kids are underage to drink, then the skrewl is liable, having assumed in loco parentis authority over them (they have no problem with this status on indoctrinating students with PC bs.) There ending the lacrosse program and destroying or attempting to destroy their careers.
Dook is the cow. Milk it.
The party was at a private residence rented by two of the senior team members. It is not on campus or in any way under the control of Duke University. I believe all of the participants were over 18. You can't nail the school for that one.
However, some of the actions and statements made by the school administration after the incident might be actionable.