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Monday, April 03, 2006
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Getting Them To Talk In a thoughtful summary of the Duke situation so far (which includes the fact that pictures and videos were taken at the party -- something I didn’t know), Tim Dahlberg at the San Diego Union-Tribune writes this: University officials say there is little more they can do, but there is. A good start might be to suspend the entire team from school if players don't start talking to police. I’m not sure I agree. This begins to feel like a very complicated story, and everyone wants to move carefully. I suspect that the lacrosse players aren’t going to school anyway. I suspect they’re semi-underground, hiding from the mob. And whether they talk or not, investigators seem to have quite a bit of evidence about that night, with one thing and another. The team’s common silence is in itself a damning piece of evidence, which their attorneys must know. Expect them -- some of them -- to start talking soon. //////////////////////////////////// UPDATE:: In a pompous, overlong letter, a Duke University English professor also says that the team should go. Not in order to get them to talk. He just wants them to go away. Surely the answer to the question must come in the form of immediate dismissals of those principally responsible for the horrors of this spring moment at Duke. Coaches of the lacrosse team, the team itself and its players, and any other agents who silenced or lied about the real nature of events at 610 Buchanan on the evening of March 13, 2006. A day that, not even in a cliched sense, will, indeed, always live in infamy for this university. |