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| Quasimodo | Mar 10 2010, 12:33 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/alumni/dm17/legal.html Avoiding Legal Perils (Duke Magazine, July-August, 1998) (snip) "I would say that almost the last part of our planning process has been to ask the question, what are our risks?" says Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Wasiolek '76, M.H.A. '78, LL.M. '93. "Other institutions would likely ask that question much earlier than we do. That's not to suggest that we are willing to take more risks, but we have tried not to let that be the guiding principle. Instead, we look at how a particular approach fits in with our overall mission." In her nearly two decades with the administration, Wasiolek has been named in five lawsuits. One concerned the university's decision to dissolve a fraternity following allegations that a number of members had sex with a woman who was drunk to the point of passing out. One involved a sexual assault, two involved injuries to students, and one involved a civil-rights discrimination suit that centered on a student's disability. Dozens of other lawsuits have been threatened but not pursued. [I would think then that she knew how to handle these legal issues. She was not a first-timer. So how did she handle accusations of rape against the lax team? Who called in Wes Covington? Is she a lawyer? Did she understand her legal responsibilities? And what happened with the fraternity where sex--or rape?--was alleged with a woman who was drunk? How did the Duke Admin and the BOT handle that? How did the HS and the N&O (and NEWSWEEK, for that matter) report the incident? Inquiring minds want to know...] (snip) "When you think about it, we have our own housing, restaurants, police department, hospital, roads, cultural activities--you name it," says Senior Vice President for Public Affairs John Burness. "Essentially, the only direct service we get from the local municipalities is fire protection; virtually everything else we provide for ourselves. [See above.] |
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| nyesq83 | Mar 10 2010, 12:50 PM Post #2 |
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I know that Delta Sigma Phi was dissolved due to a "group encounter" around that time. It was later reformed, and apparently became more popular than before, to the point of being an object of derision - for their strong popularity with heteronormative female students - during the Mangum-Nifong hoax. |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 14 2010, 08:52 AM Post #3 |
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(from one of the few Duke Basketball Reports which has not been scrubbed from the NET --it's called, 'erasing history'...) : http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/articles/?p=22459 A.G.’s Lax Report Released by DBR, April 28th, 2007 (snip) The mystery here is, as it has been: why did Mike Nifong do this? Was it just for a pension? Given the magnitude of the crime committed here – and in our opinion, even if Nifong is never charged, using an unstable woman to frame three innocent men is at least a moral crime – one has to wonder about his other cases. Which seems more likely to you – that he would start cheating on a high-profile case like this? Or that this is part of a pattern? We have no idea, but it’s a disturbing yet important question to ask. What takes our breath away is the arrogance of it, the idea that the D.A. could just so blatantly spin a case out of nothing. In fact, given the magnitude of what has transpired, we’d really urge attorneys, or law students, or journalists (which rules out just about anyone from the Herald-Sun) to pore over the records of the office for the last decade or so to see if anyone else was hung out to dry. Our hunch is that what happened in the lacrosse case didn’t happen in a vacuum. |
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