Posted on 04/14/2007 10:00:44 PM PDT by Howlin
April 23, 2007 issue - The room went dead silent as the North Carolina attorney general, Roy Cooper, began to speak. The three Duke lacrosse players and their families were gathered in front of a TV at the Raleigh Sheraton Hotel to learn how the state would proceed in a criminal investigation that had appalled and titillated the nation for more than a year. Reade Seligmann was praying, and so was Collin Finnerty, heads bent down, bobbing slightly as the attorney general spoke slowly. The families were pretty sure, based on signals from the attorney general's office, that the case would be dropped. But when the families heard the word "innocent," they erupted. "I was hysterically crying," recalls Seligmann, a strapping 21-year-old. "Everybody was hysterically crying. People were swarmed. It was like a pile-on."
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The night didn't go well from the start. After an afternoon and evening of desultory drinking games such as Beer Pong, about 30 players were sprawled on the floor or sitting on a ring of couches arranged around the stage—a ratty, tan carpet. Evans explained to his teammates that he and the other captains had requested white dancers, but that a black woman and a Hispanic woman had shown up. No one seemed to care, according to the statement given to police by Zash. One of the strippers appeared to be intoxicated and had trouble standing up, much less dancing. Halfheartedly, she began kissing the other dancer, Kim Roberts.
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I suppose there aren’t too many bachelor parties in college. What are you going to do when your friends start to get married and somebody wants to have a party at a strip club?
Obviously, I won’t go to them.
GEEK!!! :)
GEEK!!! :)
Yeah, I get that a lot. And people call me boring, too. :)
Alrighty then. It’s certainly not for everybody, but that doesn’t mean you should call guys who like to drink beer and look at naked women “degenerates”.
At least two of three who were charged -- Seligman and Finnerty -- left when the strippers arrived.
Do they qualify for your disdain, as well?
See - #75
Actually, according to the Newsweek story, they left after watching 5 minutes of the show because Mangum (the accuser) was intoxicated and lousy.
So not only is she a liar, apparently she is not a very good stripper. I mean, if you’re going to be a stripper, at least be a good one for cryin out loud.
...what about frat parties?
Keep your faith and your virtue in an era of degeneracy; it will offend people in this world but serve you well in the next!
Ma'am, the jury is still out on whether Bouchart has kept his virtue. We know he thinks his fellow Duke students are innocent, and were undeserving of the year of hell. We are waiting to hear what, if anything, he did about it.
it will offend people in this world but serve you well in the next!
If you are saying people on this thread are offended because he doesn't engage in certain vices, then you have missed the point. The offense comes from his smug, self-righteous finger pointing. Let me ask you this - do you think it virtuous to remain silent about an injustice, while sliming the victims?
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