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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Athletics the Most Likely Place

If an allegation were made against another member of the university community, the clamor would be less, says Duke law professor Paul Haagen, chairman of the school's Academic Council.

"Somebody makes an allegation against somebody in the physics department, people think, 'OK, there's a terrible person in the physics department,'" he says. "Somebody makes an allegation against the lacrosse team, that's an allegation against Duke University. ... Athletics is the most likely place to have a major scandal in a university, and the scandals roil you in ways that just about nothing else can."
Posted at: 4/26/2006 02:53:00 AM