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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Why Duke Had a Slow Response to the Allegations against the Duke Lacrosse Team
The report that President Brodhead of Duke had asked for assessing Duke's slow response to the allegations against the lacrosse team is out. Thre seem to be the expected self flagellation about lack of communication and insensitivity to racial matters. And, of course, there is the implication that if fewer white males had been involved in the Duke administration's response, they would have been more sensitive to the alleged victim's allegations.The report said Duke's response was also limited by its lack of diversity in senior management; Brodhead and his core advisers are almost all white men.Well, maybe they would have been more sensitive if the report that Duke received from law enforcement hadn't indicated skepticism about her allegations.
The case may have been handled better "if a wide array of life histories and perspectives had been brought to bear on what were sensitive and highly charges issues," the report said.Duke University officials initially put little stock in a woman's claim that she was raped by lacrosse team members because unnamed Durham police officers said the woman "kept changing her story and was not credible," according to a Duke report released Monday.Then she changed her story down to three men. That's quite a switch. Do rape victims normally make such a big change in their stories? It seems a red flag to me. And all that has come out since the original allegations has increased the doubts about her story. Of course the Durham police are denying that they had any skepticism regarding her report, but there have been several leaks out of the Durham police department that some don't buy her story. I wonder if any of them will be open in public about such skepticism.
The woman also initially told Durham officers that "she was raped and sexually assaulted by approximately 20 white members of a Duke team," according to the report.
La Shawn Barber has some more thoughts on this report.
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The report that President Brodhead of Duke had asked for assessing Duke's slow response to the allegations against the lacrosse team is out. Thre seem to be the expected self flagellation about lack of communication and insensitivity to racial matters. And, of course, there is the implication that if fewer white males had been involved in the Duke administration's response, they would have been more sensitive to the alleged victim's allegations.
La Shawn Barber has some more thoughts on this report.
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The report that President Brodhead of Duke had asked for assessing Duke's slow response to the allegations against the lacrosse team is out. Thre seem to be the expected self flagellation about lack of communication and insensitivity to racial matters. And, of course, there is the implication that if fewer white males had been involved in the Duke administration's response, they would have been more sensitive to the alleged victim's allegations.
The report said Duke's response was also limited by its lack of diversity in senior management; Brodhead and his core advisers are almost all white men.Well, maybe they would have been more sensitive if the report that Duke received from law enforcement hadn't indicated skepticism about her allegations.
The case may have been handled better "if a wide array of life histories and perspectives had been brought to bear on what were sensitive and highly charges issues," the report said.
Duke University officials initially put little stock in a woman's claim that she was raped by lacrosse team members because unnamed Durham police officers said the woman "kept changing her story and was not credible," according to a Duke report released Monday.Then she changed her story down to three men. That's quite a switch. Do rape victims normally make such a big change in their stories? It seems a red flag to me. And all that has come out since the original allegations has increased the doubts about her story. Of course the Durham police are denying that they had any skepticism regarding her report, but there have been several leaks out of the Durham police department that some don't buy her story. I wonder if any of them will be open in public about such skepticism.
The woman also initially told Durham officers that "she was raped and sexually assaulted by approximately 20 white members of a Duke team," according to the report.
La Shawn Barber has some more thoughts on this report.
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