Duke Lacrosse Team Story

[Jorge10]

Rape

WTF.


For those that are too lazy to click.

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Duke University's highly ranked lacrosse team will not play again this season until school administrators learn more about allegations that several team members raped an exotic dancer at an off-campus party, the school said Tuesday.

President Richard Brodhead decided to suspend the team from play "until there is a clearer resolution of the legal situation involving team members," the university said.

The case has roiled the campus, raised racial tensions and heightened antagonism between the affluent students at Duke, which costs about $43,000 a year, and the city of Durham, which has a large population of poor people and is about evenly divided between white and black.

A woman told police she and another dancer were hired to perform March 13 at a private party in an off-campus home. The dancer, a student at North Carolina Central University, told police she was pulled into a bathroom, beaten, choked and raped by three men.

No one has been charged.

Armed with a judge's order, police took DNA samples with a cheek swab from 46 of the lacrosse team's 47 players last week. The 47th player, the only black member of the team, did not have to provide DNA because the dancer said her attackers were white.

"I needed to have the information about who will be charged," said District Attorney Mike Nifong said. "I feel pretty confident that a rape occurred."

Brodhead said team captains notified Athletic Director Joe Alleva on Tuesday that players wanted to stay off the field until the DNA results came back from a crime lab. Brodhead said it was his decision to expand the suspension.

"In this painful period of uncertainty, it is clear to me, as it was to the players, that it would be inappropriate to resume the normal schedule of play," Brodhead said.

Nifong said the team members are standing together and refusing to talk with investigators, and he warned he may bring aiding-and-abetting charges against some of the players.

The alleged victim is black, which has proved a source of tension on campus.

"The circumstances of the rape indicated a deep racial motivation for some of the things that were done," Nifong said. "It makes a crime that is by its nature one of the most offensive and invasive even more so."

Angry over the team members' silence and the university's handling of the case, Durham residents have demonstrated on and off campus in the past few days. They rallied outside the house where the alleged attack occurred, and gathered outside of Duke Provost Peter Lange's home, where they banged on pots and pans until he emerged to answer questions.

Lange said Monday that he believes "the students would be well-advised to come forward. They have chosen not to."

A lawyer representing several lacrosse team members did not immediately return calls Tuesday.

The university's athletic director forced the team to forfeit two games because of underage drinking and the hiring of dancers at the party. The losses gave Duke, considered a national title contender before the season began, a 6-4 record with five regular-season games to go.

[jakeduke]

Disgusting - I've been following this for a couple of days and it only seems to be getting worse. It's definitely the first time I've felt embarrased to be a Duke grad.

[$_DEADSEXE_$]

It blows my mind that with how easy it is to score some ass on todays college campuses,even for nerds,...guys still resort to rape.

[IggyWH]

[ QUOTE ]
It blows my mind that with how easy it is to score some ass on todays college campuses,even for nerds,...guys still resort to rape.

[/ QUOTE ]

While I hate to say any woman is lying/lied about rape, it's clear that it happens all the time.

Do you guys remember a couple years ago when after playing Pitt, some players from St Johns basketball team went to a local titty bar. They took some broad back to their hotel where 3 (I think it was 3) banged her. She then later reported rape. The players claimed she slept with them and then wanted money and because they didn't pay her, that's why she went to police crying rape.

They were in some DEEP crap until one of the players showed his camera phone to police when he took a picture of the stripper riding one of the players. Kinda hard to get raped when you're the one riding the dude. She then fessed up.

[ligastar]

[ QUOTE ]
It blows my mind that with how easy it is to score some ass on todays college campuses,even for nerds,...guys still resort to rape.

[/ QUOTE ]

From what I understand about studies on rape it is less about getting ass and more about the power. dook is this bastion of higher education surrounded by some sketchy areas ... depending on how this unfolds (i.e. if and how many of these white players go to jail) this could turn into a sticky situation as the black leaders of Durham will not stand for an O.J. like trial and verdict.

[$_DEADSEXE_$]

supposedly this was a violent gang rape too...

[sigh]

[ QUOTE ]
supposedly this was a violent gang rape too...

[/ QUOTE ]

As opposed to the sweet, passionate, deep kissing, rape?

[UATrewqaz]

A group of white men raping a black women?

North Carolina 1906 - $50 fine
North Carolina 2006 - Presumed guilt and trial by media circus

Times they are a changin'

[$_DEADSEXE_$]

No the he said it was drunk sex/she said it was rape
Not the bruised, riped clothes, scratch marks, gouges type of physical beat down rape

[Jorge10]

[ QUOTE ]
supposedly this was a violent gang rape too...

[/ QUOTE ]

Just saw a story on MSNBC about it, turns out the woman lost 4 fingernails. Its starting to look real bad.