The Duke lacrosse scandal is trailing off into a whimper
Duke will always have the label of being the school of the Duke lacrosse team scandal. This crisis didn’t end up as badly as it could have been, the players accused were innocent, and everything pretty much returned to normal a year later. Therefore, the organization as a whole is ...
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal: A Shocking Tale of Injustice, Media Hysteria, and Deception Ashish Arora February 25, 2025 Introduction: A Case That Gripped the Nation In 2006, the United States was captivated by an explosive... Read More Read more about The Duke Lacrosse Scandal: A Shocking...
The lesson I learned: One must be most critical, in the best sense of that word, about what one is already inclined to believe. So when, say, the Duke lacrosse scandal erupted, I applied that lesson. The story was so sensational! Believing it required indulging one’s biases: A souther...
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SusannahMeadowsisaformerseniorwriterforNewsweek.ShehasbeenafrequentcontributortoTheNewYorkTimes,writingacolumnfortheArtssectionaboutbooks.Duringhercareershehascoveredthe2004presidentialcampaign,theaftermathof9/11,andtheDukelacrossescandal,amongmanyotherstories.ShehasappearedonCBSThisMorning,CNN,MSNBC,FoxNews,ESPN,Cha...
These easily consumed mini-films, ranging in jock-y topics from the Duke lacrosse scandal to O.J., are so distinct in approach and tone from each other and from most sports stories in general, that I often forget I’m actually watching something about athletes who are not hot gymnasts ...
The presumption of innocence is a bedrock foundation of Western civilization and today’s angry neo-Marxist activists could care less. The Cosby Suite Moral Panic The left is infamous for creating false narratives to feed to a docile public. A few of them are: the Duke Lacrosse s...
White House advisers Ivanka Trump (R) and Stephen Miller walk toward the White House, Washington, August 30, 2017. /VCG Photo When Duke was embroiled in a rape scandal at the lacrosse team, Miller happily took the contrarian position and defended the lacrosse team accused of rape, writing ...
This year, Duke University took the Internet public relations model to another level. In the wake of the lacrosse scandal, the university set up a web page, linked off of duke.edu, that carries official statements about the alleged rape of a local woman by three undergraduate lacrosse ...