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Monday, June 05, 2006
From Today's Duke University News Conference'The Duke University men's lacrosse team will resume play next fall under a strict code of conduct and tighter oversight by administrators, President Richard Brodhead said Monday. UD's all for this. Duke is right to reinstate the game. The main thing Duke's president conveyed was the new direct responsibility he'll take for sports generally at the university, and the new code of conduct all the lacrosse guys have signed on to. But there's "campus culture," with its astounding and basically tolerated alcohol consumption, and there's Duke's effort to promote "its values," which I guess means the values the administration and faculty hold. My sense is that at Duke, as at a lot of other campuses, the larger "values" world looks the other way while students are at play. That averting of the eyes sends its own signal, of course; and it will be difficult, after all this time, for universities to adjust their focus. |