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| Quasimodo | Mar 14 2010, 11:25 PM Post #1 |
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Oct. 2007 Ray Gronberg / Herald-Sun [reg. req.]: City honors 7 Duke championship-level teams -- City officials honored seven championship-level sports teams from Duke University on Monday, including the men's lacrosse team that's been at the heart of a controversy that continues to dog Durham's government. The ceremony for the Duke teams -- all of which won an Atlantic Coast Conference title or reached the NCAA Final Four in their sport -- paralleled one officials staged in April for five teams from N.C. Central University. Similar events for other community groups are a regular part of almost all of the council's televised business meetings. But Monday's ceremony was noteworthy for the presence of lacrosse coach John Danowski and three seniors from the team that a year ago was the focus of what proved to be an unfounded rape charge. The tables have since turned, and the men falsely accused last year recently sued the city government, alleging that police and other officials massively violated their civil rights. City and Duke officials avoided direct allusions to the controversy, with perhaps the closest to one coming when Mayor Bill Bell noted that the men's lacrosse team had reached the NCAA Final Four in two of the last three years. The missing year in that string was 2006, when school President Richard Brodhead canceled the team's season, partly in response to Bell's urging, at the height of the media firestorm over the false charges. Brodhead – whose handling of the case has drawn fire from some alumni – praised the lacrosse players and the other athletes in attendance in the strongest terms. "They're hardworking and outstanding students, and excellent members of the Duke community and this community," he said. Interviewed before the ceremony, Danowski said coaches and team members had discussed the invitation after it arrived and were "delighted" by the recognition. [...] [What happened to the tales of inbred superiority, privilege, " Rape is the substitution of raw power for love, brutality for tenderness and dehumanization for intimacy. It is also the crudest assertion of inequality, a way to show that the strong are superior to the weak and can rightfully use them as objects of their pleasure", and, "what they did was bad enough"? Does he disagree with everything he said the previous year? If so, what made him change his mind? Or, if not, why couldn't he have said something like this in April 2006? A few words from him at that time would have gone a long way towards putting out the fires and given comfort to some Duke students and families which were feeling abandoned.] Edited by Quasimodo, Mar 14 2010, 11:28 PM.
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| Quasimodo | Mar 14 2010, 11:30 PM Post #2 |
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City concil honors Duke athletes -- Standing in the packed City Council chambers, seven Duke athletic teams were honored by City Council members for outstanding achievement in sports before the Council began business as usual Monday night. "We're going to need a bigger auditorium if you guys keep winning all these trophies," Mayor Bill Bell said as the athletes began filing down to the front of the crowded hall. President Richard Brodhead, who was present at the meeting, said he was honored to have the students-who are members of women's basketball, golf, field hockey, volleyball, men's and women's lacrosse and men's soccer teams-recognized by the City Council. [...] [A year late and a dollar short...] |
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