Posted on 10/04/2008 8:56:08 AM PDT by abb
The A&T Register ncatregister.com Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Woman behind Duke lacrosse scandal speaks out
Accuser talks to Aggies about being a student again after controversy surrounding trial faded
Alexandria Harper Contributor
It was called a scandal but made into mockery.
The Duke lacrosse case hit radio and television stations by storm in 2007. Reporters from media outlets around the country scrambled to provide day to-day updates on Crystal Gail Mangum, the accuser, and three Duke Lacrosse players; Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, the accused.
Mangum, a former exotic dancer and escort, accused these men of sexual assault in Mid-March of 2006.
The investigation dragged on for over a year and was finally dismissed by Attorney General Roy Cooper.
The case was never argued in court and Mangum has yet to have her say about what happened. She still believes she needs to set the record straight.
On Thursday, April 2, Mangum made a surprise visit to Crosby Hall. Her appearance was only made known to a few select students enrolled in Dr. Myra Shird’s Argumentation and Debate class.
Preparations for Mangum’s visit were ongoing all semester. Students researched details of the case but were never really sure if Mangum would actually appear.
As Mangum took her seat, silence overtook the classroom. Students, eager to ask questions, began organizing notes and uncapping pens to write down her responses.
The class was witnessing history as this was the first time Mangum addressed a live audience to tell her story.
Dressed in a beige blouse and black necklace, Mangum read a prepared statement. She gave an overview of her position and then opened for questions One of the first questions asked was how she got the job dancing for the Duke Lacrosse players that night.
Mangum said, “I worked for an escort service connected to the nightclub and was hired to dance at the party.” Once her involvement was made clear, another student asked where and how did the attack take place.
Mangum said, “She was sexual assaulted by three men from behind and then sodomized by what she believed to be a broom stick.”
James Blocker, a senior Liberal Studies major, touched on a very sensitive issue when he asked, “Was the attack racially motivated?”
Mangum responded, “I was sexually assaulted by three people and they used racial slurs.”
In the heat of discussion a student posed a hypothetical question.
One said, “46 out of the 47 Duke Lacrosse players were DNA tested for possible semen excretion into the accuser’s body
The 47th member was not tested because he was black. Is it possible this 47th member could be the missing link in this case?”
Mangum said, “Absolutely not, my attackers were white.”
The same student wanted to know what Mangum thought about the CBS interview of Kim Roberts done by the late Ed Bradley.
Roberts, a second dancer present at the party was asked of Mangum’s condition after the alleged sexual assault took place.
Roberts said, “She [Mangum] obviously wasn’t hurt, she was fine.”
The student went on further to ask Mangum, “Why would she say that.”
Mangum replied “I believe Kim Roberts was paid off to not say anything.”
As questions of intent and motive were answered students left the discussion feeling a bit unsure of what to believe. Mangum’s powerful in class testimony altered many minds.
Some undergraduates more skeptical of Mangum’s commentary and felt there was no substantive evidence to prove her story. All students did however agree that justice was not served.
Missing DNA evidence found throughout the house was ruled out before police properly evaluated it. Assumptions regarding both the lacrosse players and Mangum character distorted much of the facts.
District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred due to his mismanagement of the case. These missing pieces combined made for a nasty situation.
Mangum however is looking forward. The soon to be N.C. Central alum, is set to publish a book entitled “The Last Dance for Grace” and hopes to set the record straight.
Mangum said, “She is striving to get her PhD and to open a group home for sexually assaulted women.”
Chuckle. But it is conceivable she could run, or worse perhaps even likelier, be appointed some sort of governmental Commissioner for a diversity or women's group in the future, isn't it?
Nope, she should be interviewed on Oprah, and the View. Barry's playing on white guilt for votes, we should make sure the other side of this 'community' gets exposed to the public, as well.
Baldo · 35 minutes ago Forward
Thanks abb. I try to track down leads and I spend hour on this case going down alleys which normally are dead ends. I search key words and key combinations. In my earlier days I was trained in a certain type of data finding investigations and correction of employees.
In this case I searched ‘danceforgrace’ and was researching who owned the web site etc. I just kept going down the line and I saw this link to black college newspapers. Bingo! There it was! Pretty brazen isn’t she? I did the same for the potbangers and finally found Manju & Sam Hummel and the connections to duke which lead to the whole nest of Marxists. There is more to this case and the connection to the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke.
The families are so happy for what the Blog Hooligans have done. I can’t imagine what would have happen if it wasn’t for your efforts and the rest of us. Those boys were f*cked and Steel and Brodhead knew it and sided with the vicious bigots in Durham in a strictly self-interest move.
I was told by one the attorneys that the forum is read by “important” people and many attorneys are amazed by the Hooligans. He said he was sure the old forum was hacked for a reason, to keep us quiet. Didn’t work, did it?
I really appreciate your daily updates. It is an important tool for me. Make sure you tell the Freepers! Blog Hooligans, one and all!
abb · Today, 11:28 AM Forward
Damn, Baldo. How did you find this and when? This is blog hooligan reporting in the finest traditions of Matt Drudge. If there were a Pulitzer Prize (and I think there should be) for blog reporting, you would win it.
Walt
“She still believes she needs to set the record straight.”
The record is already straight. She lied.
She already is working a dangerous side of Durham. Considering she had DNA from 5 men found on her when she was tested (none from the Duke LAX players), you know she ‘gets around’. Not a good lifestyle by any means, and crossing the wrong people in Durham is not smart, and can have dire consequences...
It was accidental but I agree it is funny. Wish I had thought of it. ;)
“danceforcash already taken, huh?”
lol...
Yeah...what the heck is “dance for grace” anyhow?
How about: “liedownforcash” or “ruinthreelivesforcash”
And I’ll bet this gal thinks she’s done nothing wrong.
Another sociopath like OJ.
It’s time for a civil lawsuit against her for maligning in public, others. Of course, she’ll claim she was only doing an “educational” exercise. Starting a home for battered women? She’s a racist. I guess only racist women will be allowed into her home.
Kudos to Baldo!
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“There is more to this case and the connection to the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke.”
http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/today/events.php?cal=jhfc&startdate=2006-4-01&enddate=2006-4-31
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Panel Discussion
Thinking About This Social Disaster
Wahneema Lubiano (AAAS and Literature), Thavolia Glymph (AAAS and History), and Serena Sebring (Sociology)
The presenters will talk about what has happened, what is happening, and what is coming together in the framing of the accusation of rape against members of the Duke men*s lacrosse team and its afterlife. There will be plenty of time for audience members to be part of the discussion.
Sponsored by African and African American Studies
For more information, contact African and African American Studies by phone at 919-684-2830 .
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September 7, 2006,
EXCERPT
Wahneema Lubiano leaned forward in her office chair and pored over the copy for the full-page ad one more time. What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like? the headline read.
It was just minutes before the copy deadline for the April 6 issue of The Chronicle, Duke’s daily student newspaper. Lubiano had taught literature and African and African-American studies for 10 years, and her campus activism on race and gender issues cast her in a comforting light for many of her students. She’d heard them describe a campus culture dominated by a small but powerful class of rich, white students who led a privileged life many white kids at Duke took for granted. She’d heard accounts of a few brutal rapes on campus and about the far more pervasive trend of date rape.
As March turned to April, Lubiano felt her students’ frustration rising again, fueled by the feeling that in the wake of the scandal, no one was listening to them. The head of her department had charged her with giving African-American students a voice. Theirs were the dozen quotes that appeared on the page she was getting ready to submit.
“We want the absence of terror. But we don’t really know what that means … That’s why we’re so silent.”
“I was talking to a white woman student who was asking me, ‘Why do people’ — and she meant black people — ‘make race such a big issue?’ … They just don’t see it.”
Lubiano thought back to the last week of March, to the night she’d first heard those words. About 75 students had crowded into a second-floor conference room at the John Hope Franklin Center, named for one of the most prominent African-American professors in school history. They were there for a forum on black masculinity, but the focus had changed to reflect the sordid drama playing out on campus. Tensions were high as the space filled. There were two white women in the room, Lubiano remembered, a few Latino and Asian students and a couple of white faculty members. Everyone else was black.
One professor thundered about having no confidence in an administration that considered canceling games a proper response to sexual assault and racial slurs. He called for the players to be expelled and the program to be shut down. Lubiano was taken aback by the level of her colleague’s anger, which put him out of step with the rest of her peers. Yes, the lacrosse team had sparked the crisis. But there was more to it, much more. One by one, the students spoke of their unhappiness with their life at Duke.
“This is not a different experience for us here at Duke University. We go to class with racist classmates, we go to gym with people who are racists … It’s part of the experience.”
(snip)
Like many of the black faculty, Lubiano had heard for years about the poor reputation of the lacrosse team, heard some of her students call them racists. A Facebook photo of a male student in blackface, believed to be a lacrosse player, had been e-mailed around before and after the alleged rape. Two weeks after the incident, Lubiano had attended a meeting of about 200 agitated faculty members. A senior professor stood and berated the team, saying the school needed to flush it down the drain and start over.
Lubiano knew what it was like to be verbally attacked. Just before the lacrosse case exploded on campus, conservative commentator David Horowitz had spoken there. He told students that some of their departments and professors did not belong at the elite college, mentioning Lubiano, among others, by name. Duke administrators responded with silence then, and Lubiano believed they were far too quiet about the lacrosse incident as well. So she read for one final time the words she wrote to express what her students, and the 88 Duke professors who’d signed the ad, wanted to say.
The students know this disaster didn’t begin on March 13 and won’t end with what the police say or the court decides. Like all disasters, this one has a history. And what lies beneath what we’re hearing from our students are questions about the future.
Lubiano knew some would see the ad as a stake through the collective heart of the lacrosse team. But if the black faculty couldn’t speak for black students now, could it ever?
Rape allegations, media fallout rankle community
By: Neal SenGupta
Issue date: 4/13/06
Community members gathered Wednesday to discuss the social implications of the lacrosse rape allegations.
Media Credit: IREM MERTOL/THE CHRONICLE
Community members gathered Wednesday to discuss the social implications of the lacrosse rape allegations.
Students, faculty and community members gathered to channel the heated emotions stirred up by rape allegations made against the men’s lacrosse team into a useful conversation Wednesday night.
The audience of about 60 met at a forum -titled “Thinking About This Social Disaster” and sponsored by the African and African-American Studies program-to discuss the long-term effects of the alleged crimes and the media attention they have drawn.
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“Whatever happens with the court case, people are asking that the everyday change,” said Wahneema Lubiano, associate professor of AAS and literature.
She said students could and should address issues such as sexism and racial intolerance without being catalyzed by recent events.
Thavolia Glymph, AAAS assistant professor, said she is disappointed with the community because “since the DNA results were returned Monday, we [have been] moving backwards.”
She said the results have given the community a false sense of vindication and that students now feel issues such as race and gender no longer need to be examined.
(snip)
I had a lap dance once and the gal had the same goal. You know, child at home, dancing to earn money for college......She was so inspiring I gave her an extra $20
http://www.thedurhamnews.com/around_town/story/163614.html
Published: Sep 27, 2008 12:30 AM
Lacrosse suit bills top $1 million
Bills from lawyers defending the city against three lawsuits sparked by the Duke lacrosse case have topped $1 million.
By the end of August, the five firms involved in the city’s defense had submitted bills totaling $1.2 million, nearly 60 percent of which Durham taxpayers covered.
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Prolly should link this, too.
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2008/10/magna-cum-laude-liar-strikes-again.html
Saturday, October 04, 2008
THE MAGNA CUM LAUDE LIAR STRIKES AGAIN
“Mangum said, “She is striving to get her PhD and to open a group home for sexually assaulted women.”
She already has shown us a master’s degree in storytelling.
And if you don’t give her a PhD she will accuse YOU of sexual assault. And racism, blah, blah, blah.
Maybe she could open a group home for women who make up stories about being sexually assaulted.
When all possible suspects are ruled out by DNA evidence then this woman is either knowingly lying, or else is insane and really believes it happened.
FR You Tube ads are better than McPain’s ads.
” On Thursday, April 2, Mangum made a surprise visit to Crosby Hall. Her appearance was only made known to a few select students enrolled in Dr. Myra Shird’s Argumentation and Debate class.”
Why North Carolina A&T State University?
Why Dr. Myra Shird’s Argumentation and Debate class?
What’s the connection?
Related???
http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6026.shtml
Dr. Jarvis Hall, director of the political science department at NCCU, attended North Carolina A&T State University as an undergraduate. He says he grew up in a rural town in the the state and might not have been able to rise to such academic success had he not attended small, nurturing institutions. Now, he sees his role at NCCU as doing the same kind of work in building a stronger Black middle class. Approximately 60 percent of NCCU students receive financial aid, and 81 percent are Black.
“I’m very proud to be here. There’s a real sense of mission,” Hall says. “I’m trying to reach people who ordinarily wouldn’t have the opportunity for a good education.”
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Pride returns, gingerly For Duke students and alums, dismissals are good news, but they’re holding out hope all charges will go
Newsday (Long Island, NY) - December 24, 2006
Author: MITCHELL FREEDMAN AND JULIET CHUNG. STAFF WRITERS. Staff writer Deborah S. Morris contributed to this story.
EXCERPT
A North Carolina NAACP officer yesterday urged observers of the case not to jump to conclusions.
“We just don’t want people to prosecute this case in the press and the news media,” said Jarvis Hall , political action chair of the state’s NAACP and a professor at North Carolina Central University, the school the 28-year-old accuser, who is black, attended. “We want the evidence to speak for itself.”
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Moral dichotomy
Guest Column
By: Jarvis Hall
Posted: 6/22/06
My interest in the Duke lacrosse rape case may go beyond that of the typical Durham resident.
I am African American. I have lived in Durham, off and on for about 20 years. For much of that time, I have been directly affiliated with the two principal institutions involved in the case, Duke University and North Carolina Central University.
I received my Ph.D. in political science from Duke. Since 1995, I have taught at North Carolina Central University, chairing the Department of Political Science from 1998 to 2005.
In addition, my major area of specialization is black politics. Therefore, race-an issue that permeates the Duke lacrosse rape case-is central to my teaching and research.
But actually, my interest in this case transcends all these attributes.
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BULL! She certainly has already said quite a bit, and none of it remotely useful for setting the record straight.
If she says more now, how would we know she isn't just lying again?
I see two possibilities for this skank:
1) Time in the county jail for repeated prostitution arrests over the next several years.
2) Giving Obama the Lewinsky treatment should, G-d forbid, he get elected. [Bow chicka bow bowww].
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