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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Harvey Araton,New York Times sportswriter, suggests that the sweatbands that say "INNOCENT" on them that the Duke lacrosse ladies now sport in solidarity with the indicted guys are not a very good idea. He describes their decision to "martyr their male lax mates" (fab alliteration there) as lacking "common sense" and "maturity." Do they realize the "kind of behavior they are staking their own reputations on?"

On a men's program that, according to a recent report after an internal investigation, was described in 2005 by a dean for residential life and housing to be "building toward a train wreck." A program found to have 52 disciplinary incidents in the past five and a half years at a rate that was accelerating. A program that produced the fateful party on March 13 at which drinking and stripping were the primary attractions and racial epithets directed at two hired dancers were reported to the police by a neighbor.


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Update: Same subject, less diplomatic.

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Another one.