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Saturday, March 25, 2006

Well-heeled Wit

Once again, the witty winos of Duke University have uttered memorable words. UD readers may recall drunk and disorderly students there a few semesters ago announcing this, when law enforcers interrupted them at their fun: “Hey, everyone, as soon as you get out of high school, you can become a Durham police officer.”

Now some members of the Duke lacrosse team are reported to have said to an African American woman -- an exotic dancer they hired and then (according to pending charges) raped and almost strangled: “Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt.”



The athletics director at Duke also has a way with words. Of the lacrosse team incident, he comments: "This is not the kind of thing that represents Duke University in any way that is positive.”
Posted at: 3/25/2006 08:22:00 AM