Re: Duke Lacrosse Team Story
Maybe I'm just out of the loop because I don't know much about Duke or the culture of Durham...but why is this such a story?
Of course it should be a local story in Durham, but why am I being bombarded with this stuff on ESPN? If Duke had won the lacrosse nat'l title, they'd get a blip near the end of SportsCenter.
Women get raped on college campuses all the time. It's very sad, I wish it never happened, but it does.
And no one ever deserves to be raped or physically harmed, I'm not implying that, but...it sounds like this woman put herself at a greater risk of this happening by being in that setting rather than being at, say, the library. That should be a safety lesson for women to avoid those kinds of settings.
And, unless there is evidence the rape was racially motivated, I don't see why the race should be an issue, and I'd think the same if the roles were reversed.
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