| "Swaggered for Years"; Ask the media...Where's the MANGUM equal? | |
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| Deleted User | Apr 18 2011, 01:13 PM Post #61 |
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They really know how to pick'em at NCCU: http://www.hinterlandgazette.com/2010/09/bishop-eddie-l-long-accused-by-anthony.html "Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship," the suits allege. The pastor took one plaintiff, Anthony Flagg, 21, on overnight trips to a half-dozen American cities in recent years, Flagg's suit alleges. "Long shared a bedroom and engaged in intimate sexual contact with plaintiff Flagg including kissing, massaging, masturbating of plaintiff Flagg by defendant Long and oral sexual contact," the suit says. Long took the other plaintiff, Maurice Murray Robinson, 20, to Auckland, New Zealand, in October 2008 for his 19th birthday and engaged in oral sex with him, Robinson's suit alleges. "Following the New Zealand Trip, Defendant Long regularly engaged in sexual touching, and other sexual acts with Plaintiff Robinson," Robinson's suit alleges. |
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| Joan Foster | Apr 18 2011, 01:14 PM Post #62 |
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WHY DOES the AP lie? It's a LIE that her problems started post-lacrosse. A LIE. A LIE to cover for her. A LIE to push an agenda. No wonder news organizations are folding. They LIE. |
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| Deleted User | Apr 18 2011, 01:24 PM Post #63 |
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Based on just the charges against Bishop Long, it's possible Crystal had a few friends on the Board of Trustees at NCCU. |
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| genny6348 | Apr 18 2011, 01:25 PM Post #64 |
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I remember a day when lying was a bad thing . . . or is it just my imagination? |
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| Deleted User | Apr 18 2011, 01:29 PM Post #65 |
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It's become our national pastime. We are lied to by the press, the President, congress, and some of our universities. |
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| Joan Foster | Apr 18 2011, 01:37 PM Post #66 |
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When Peer Pressure, Not a Conscience, Is Your Guide * * Reprints * Save By SELENA ROBERTS Published: March 31, 2006 ON the front page of Wednesday's USA Today, there was a photo of a man wearing a T-shirt with a traffic sign and a message for rat finks written in graffiti type: "Stop Snitching." Skip to next paragraph Jennifer Warburg for The New York Times Graffitti on Duke's campus urging lacrosse players to be forthcoming in a rape investigation. Derek Anderson for The New York Times Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler and his players at practice Wednesday, after the season was suspended. As the story detailed, this is the bold new wardrobe of drug dealers and gang members engaged in an anti-snitch campaign that is frustrating authorities. Imagine a T-shirt as a tool of witness intimidation. Now imagine it as the undershirt of the male athlete in a locker-room culture devoted to its own code of silence, of a male athlete who thrives inside hostile arenas where the Vegas rule of "what goes on here, stays here" creates the tacit acceptance of denigrating behavior. On a team, there are players reared on misplaced war-room jargon, conditioned to equate teammates with soldiers, locker rooms with foxholes and Patton with the coach. In an arena, fans are roped off from the norms of decent behavior, provided anonymity by the cover of a crowd, free to mock their foils without repercussions. Want to challenge an opponent's manhood? Mock him by turning the serenade of "Brokeback Mountain" into a gay slur. Care to test the tolerance of an adversary who has been arrested? Taunt him with the rattle of handcuffs. Go ahead and break any social code necessary for the sake of the team. At the intersection of entitlement and enablement, there is Duke University, virtuous on the outside, debauched on the inside. This is the home of Coach K's white-glove morality and the Cameron Crazies' celebrated vulgarity. The season is over, but the paradox lives on in Duke's lacrosse team, a group of privileged players of fine pedigree entangled in a night that threatens to belie their social standing as human beings. Something happened March 13, when a woman, hired to dance at a private party, alleged that three lacrosse players sexually assaulted her in a bathroom for 30 minutes. According to reported court documents, she was raped, robbed, strangled and was the victim of a hate crime. She was also reportedly treated at a hospital for vaginal and anal injuries consistent with sexual assault and rape. Players have been forced to give up their DNA, but to the dismay of investigators, none have come forward to reveal an eyewitness account. Maybe the team captains are right. Maybe the allegations are baseless. But why is it so hard to gather the facts? Why is any whisper of a detail akin to snitching? "The idea of breaking ranks within a team is identified as weak," said Katie Gentile, an assistant professor and the director of the Women's Center at John Jay College, adding, "The bottom line is, your self-esteem is more valuable to you than someone else's life." There is research Gentile cites to back up the analysis. What do women fear the most? Rape and murder. What do men fear most? Ridicule. The stigma as a traitor — and the threat of repercussion and isolation — is more powerful than the instinct to do what's right, a pattern perpetuated on every level of sports, from prep to pro. At Long Island's Mepham High School, older members of the football team were accused of sodomizing junior varsity players with broomsticks, golf balls and pine cones at a camp in 2003. It took nearly a month and 12 subpoenas to prompt the team's cooperation with authorities. On a lake in Minnesota last fall, a group of Vikings were accused of treating their boat cruise hostesses as grab bags. With teammates employing a "loose lips sink ships" strategy when questioned on the incident, the most salacious disclosure from the case thus far has been a legal debate over what constitutes a lap dance. There are more cases all the time, often depicting a group of players against one woman. Some involve male players sexually molesting a handful of rookies in hazing rituals. Is it heterocentrism, homophobia or homoeroticism? Whatever the root, there is a common thread: a desire for teammates to exploit the vulnerable without heeding a conscience. At Duke, a day after the team provided DNA samples to the police, players went back to practice as normal. "All our focus is on trying to beat the Hoyas now," the lacrosse coach, Mike Pressler, said. Public outrage had more traction than Pressler's warped priorities. For now, the season has been suspended while the investigation continues. For days, Durham residents and Duke students have rallied on behalf of sexual-assault victims, banging pots and pans, hoping to stir more action out of Duke's president, Richard H. Brodhead. The indignation has been heartening, but it may also be hypocritical. How many of the offended are among the offensive? Have any of them cheered when the Cameron Crazies — who have been known to deride an opponent accused of a sex crime with a sign that read, "Did you send her flowers?" — cross the boundaries of decency? Has President Brodhead reveled in the Crazies' witty ability to belittle villains in an environment that only serves to nurture the entitlement of his own athletes? Does President Brodhead dare to confront the culture behind the lacrosse team's code of silence or would he fear being ridiculed as a snitch? |
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| Bill Anderson | Apr 18 2011, 01:52 PM Post #67 |
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Of course, I prefer to see someone investigate the "swagger" of the "media culture." That is where the REAL swagger lies, believe me. Arrogance? The worst-behaved jock is an angel compared to a typical news reporter when it comes to showing arrogance.
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| NDLax84 | Apr 19 2011, 09:14 PM Post #68 |
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Let me tell you something, pendejo.
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Just took the time to re-read the ol' classics, all five pages worth. Makes my blood boil all over again. I have always enjoyed grabbing the new SI from the mail each week and turning first to its back page. For years, that was where you'd find Rick Reilly's "Point After" column, part Dave Barry, part Jason Whitlock, always funny and thought-provoking, and benevolent of spirit. A few years ago, Rick said goodbye and "Point After" has since been delegated to a rotisserie of race and gender "qualifiers" sure to meet with G88 approval. Among them is Selena Roberts, whose BULLSHIT, I'm happy to say, has never again sullied my retinas. If I turn to the back page and see her smug mug and byline, I rip it out and can it, so my kids can't read it either, and turn back to the front of the issue. F Selena Roberts. And F SI for ruining one of my seemingly life-long little pleasures. |
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| NDLax84 | Apr 19 2011, 09:27 PM Post #69 |
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Let me tell you something, pendejo.
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And I got one more question: Who's this Bob Panoff dick? |
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| MikeKell | Apr 19 2011, 10:08 PM Post #70 |
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Asked and answered. I think he is some jerk physicist/educator who passes himself off as a former college lacrosse player (ND '77) and coach (Clemson 88-91) living in Trinity Park at the time, having had his quotes taken out of context by one Ann Blythe. I saw something where he was given the 2011 Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina Science Leadership Association . . . riiiight. . . .
Edited by MikeKell, Apr 19 2011, 10:15 PM.
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| Baldo | Apr 19 2011, 10:15 PM Post #71 |
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A ND Lacrosse Player that didn't drink? Impossible! But I am sure NDLax made up for him! This IS the year the Irish come back strong under Brian Kelly. So says Ara! |
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| NDLax84 | Apr 19 2011, 10:33 PM Post #72 |
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Let me tell you something, pendejo.
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Blowhard. And here I thought he was just singularly responsible for the "swagger" tag. In all seriousness, it's good to "see" you, Mike. Any chance of making your way up to B'more Memorial Day Weekend? Saw a bunch of late 70's vintage NDLaxers there last year... |
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| MikeKell | Apr 19 2011, 10:44 PM Post #73 |
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naw, he was ASKED about the lacrosse team swagger, and from what I gather, his quote was, DUKE swaggers, not just the lacrosse team. no chance for "Balimer". . . helping direct the Undergraduate Petascale Computing Institute at UIUC those days. . . blowing hard as I can . . . |
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| NDLax84 | Apr 19 2011, 10:53 PM Post #74 |
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Let me tell you something, pendejo.
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Well, your height makes it a little easier. So there's that.
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