Alleged Rape of NCCU Student: (Duke Scandal)

[Confucius]

Originally Posted by Little32

From what I understand, there has been a long standing animosity between the school and the community (town/gown conflict). It is primarily a race/class issue. There have probably been too many instances where something really did happen(not necessarily rape, but other criminal activity)--and was swept under the rug, and the town is just fed up.

Make sense, I knew there had to be some reason for this.

[shinerbock]

Sorry, I have a tough time believing that the college students were preying upon the locals. Logic indicates that it was probably the other way around. I'm not saying there weren't incidents like you mentioned, but I have a tough time believing they're the victim.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Sorry, I have a tough time believing that the college students were preying upon the locals. Logic indicates that it was probably the other way around. I'm not saying there weren't incidents like you mentioned, but I have a tough time believing they're the victim.

This is the reason that, whatever our ideological or experiential perspective, we have to look at the particulat facts, and not speculate about general expectations circumscribed by racial,class,gender issues.

The Duke lacrosse team was known to be rowdy, with infraction after infraction and year after year of drunk, disorderly conduct and other "animal house" behaviour like out of control underage drinking, public urination, etc. in the residential neighborhood where the house was.The University did not censure them as they should have. Something of this nature was bound to happen. Does that make the three young men guilty? No; but in this circumstance it can lend some credence to speculation about sexual misconduct,given this context.

This is like the "perfect storm" of a case. All the parties involved being in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong things. Nothing good will come of it. It's a lose-lose siutation for all involved. This is the lesson the carefree, boys and girls gone wild crowd needs to consider.