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Ironies

By K.C. Johnson

In justifying his character assault on the lacrosse players, History professor Peter Wood mused that the lacrosse players were undesirable upper-classers, while ?the football players here are often rural white boys with baseball caps or hard-working black students who are proud to be at Duke.?Ryan McFadyen is now a football player at Duke. See Wood's stereotypes collide.In his first off-campus remarks after the arrests of Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, Richard Brodhead asserted, ?If our students did what is alleged, it is appalling to the worst degree. If they didn?t do it, whatever they did is bad enough.? Since Seligmann and Finnerty attended a party they played no role in organizing and drank some beer, Brodhead apparently was asserting that underage drinking was ?bad enough? to merit the national assault on his two students' character...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on August 21, 2008 (boomark / email).