Posted on 05/16/2008 3:06:18 PM PDT by John Jorsett
It seems anyone can get a college degree these days-especially if they go to North Carolina Central University.
Standards of integrity there have long been dismal: This is, after all, the school that gave violent felon Solomon Burnette a diploma in 2007. Burnette, you may recall, robbed two Duke students at gunpoint in 1997.
After finishing a 13-month prison sentence, he had the audacity not only to enroll in Arabic classes on our campus in April 2007; Burnette also penned a column I and many others interpreted as inciting physical violence against white Dukies in his student newspaper.
Unfortunately, however, 2008 marks a new low... even for NCCU.
Just this month, the university graduated Crystal Mangum, the drug-addled, mentally unstable prostitute who falsely accused three lacrosse players of raping her two years ago.
Mangum is an accomplished liar and criminal, and a credible school shouldn't have allowed her within 50 miles of its graduation ceremony.
Indeed, this is a woman who has maintained for more than two years that 20, five, and finally three Duke lacrosse players violated her orally, vaginally and anally in a bathroom the size of a broom closet. In her final version of the "assault," Mangum claimed this was possible because she was magically suspended in midair (by hooks and pulleys, perhaps?) as the three men attacked her.
In reality, Mangum-who arrived at the lacrosse players' party so drunk and high she could barely stand-may have feared another psychiatric commitment the morning of March 14, 2006, and so she accused three men of rape to garner sympathy.
As an aside, if anyone at NCCU still believes her story, I would invite them to review court records indicating Mangum had DNA from two unidentified men in her rectum; two more in her pubic region; one man in her vagina; and four to five men on her panties-none of whom were lacrosse players (a physical impossibility because Mangum said her attackers wore no condoms during the "rape").
And although her bold-faced lies ruined three young men's lives, they were a jackpot for Mangum: Within days, she was already using the "assault" to hustle pain meds from emergency room doctors, claiming "excruciating pain from the... beating." Sensing a lucrative civil settlement on the horizon, Mangum even bragged to a security guard at her strip club that she was "going to get paid by the white boys."
Unsurprisingly, those actions constitute flagrant violations of NCCU's honor code, which prohibits: "lewd, indecent or obscene conduct (whether public or private)"; "violation of the alcohol policy, including binge drinking, use or personal possession of alcoholic beverages by undergraduate students;" and the real doozie, "knowingly making in public a false [oral or] written or printed statement with the intent to deceive and/or mislead or injure the character or reputation of another."
NCCU also touts itself as a "drug-free academic community," a claim that's hard to take seriously when one of the college's own students admits to turning tricks and getting high four or five nights per week. In fact, Mangum had overdosed on flexeril and booze when she was first picked up by police the night of March 14.
And that's what makes Mangum's latest milestone so infuriating: It demeans the accomplishments of thousands of hard-working, law-abiding Eagles who also graduated this May.
A Duke student committing even a fraction of those crimes would have been summarily expelled; being accused of them would be enough for an emergency suspension.
Because of the university's blatant refusal to enforce its own rules, I will never again take an NCCU degree seriously, and neither should any other self-respecting Dukie. NCCU's "seal of approval" no longer guarantees good character, and it's just too hard to tell the thugs and liars (like Burnette and Mangum) apart from the high-performing majority.
Now to be fair, NCCU is hardly the first public institution to give Mangum a pass. Durham police, prosecutors and even Attorney General Roy Cooper all opted not to indict her for filing false police reports, reasoning that she was too crazy to stand trial. (No word yet on how many legally insane people maintain a 3.0 GPA at a nationally accredited university.)
Still, NCCU's actions are morally bankrupt and far eneath the dignity of a nationally recognzed university. The damage that NCCU has done to its reputation is very serious, and it insults thousands of upstanding alumni.
With three kids, a nasty drug habit and psychiatric and criminal histories longer than my arm, Crystal Mangum probably needs all the good fortune she can get. But until she owns up to her malicious lies, she deserves no special favors-least of all from a publicly funded university.
Crystal Mangum is not a victim, and her actions meant two other former members of the Class of 2008 (their names are Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, for the record) didn't graduate last weekend. Mangum's lies stole a year of their college careers, and it makes me sick to think of her celebrating her achievement while they (along with millions of legitimate rape victims harmed by her dishonesty) struggle to piece their lives back together.
Crystal Mangum may now have a signed and sealed police psychology degree, but she'll always be Public Enemy No. 1 in my book.
Kristin Butler, Trinity '08, is a former Chronicle columnist.
(/sarcasm)
Hoo-boy! Im gonna follow the reaction to this column in the “Durham community”. It should be a doozy!
Didn’t Obama just carry N.C.? It’s loony what happens there!
(Burnette) “had the audacity not only to enroll in
Arabic classes.....”
-——Now THAT’s what Obama would call “The Audacity of Hope”
Crystal Mangum would have cried to Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright if the school did anything OUTSIDE what she wanted.
Had the school followed any policies of expelling her for her CRIMINAL activities, the school would have been attacked by the usual black racists and their band of assorted criminals and thugs.
That is the only way some people operate inside our Nation.
You said it. Note that she is ‘08, so as far as undergrad goes, hopefully she is safe from gang retaliation (gang of 88 that is!).
What a waisted degree...that should get her a good job at McDonalds if she changes her name.
But, on the other hand, next time she gets in trouble a good DA is going to use that degree against her when it comes to deciding her punishment.
Folks -— relax..
The “University” which granted the skank her degree - is ranked in the THIRD TIER of universities...
The THIRD tier, is commonly referred to as the Turd Tier...
By THEIR standards, my aging and very intellectually
challenged beagle could earn a Ph.D..
Newsweek goes so far as to also mention that NCCU is among the LEAST SELECTIVE of universities in the Third Tier..
Who would have guessed....
Degrees from NCCU are suitable for .................I can’t imagine.
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North Carolina Central University
At a glance
Address
1801 Fayetteville Street
Durham, NC 27707
Website
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* Total Cost Per Year - $20,000 - 25,000
Student Body - Large
Institution - Public -
Selectivity - Least Selective
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Year founded:
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Religious affiliation:
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Semester
Undergraduate student body:
6,614
Setting:
Urban
Endowment:
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Fall 2008 Admissions
Application deadline:
August 6
Application fee:
$30
Selectivity: Least selective
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Universities–Master’s (South), third tier
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Tuition and fees:
$3,666 in-state, $13,410 out-of-state
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More like the class of .08
And, IMHO, is the sort of thing we Americans can expect if Berry ever becomes POTUS. And by "we" I don't mean just whites, but anyone who is a non-leftist/marxist/Al Sharpton approved "brother". God help the conservative black....
A little more information about the “student body”.
ACT Test Admission
Rank 1230th for 75pctl scores
Applicants submitting ACT results 20%
Verbal scores (25/75 %ile) 13 / 19
Math scores (25/75 %ile) 15 / 19
Cumulative scores (25/75 %ile) 15 / 19
SAT Test Admission
Rank 1245th for 75pctl scores
Applicants submitting SAT results 85%
Verbal scores (25/75 %ile) 370 / 480
Math scores (25/75 %ile) 380 / 480
Cumulative scores (25/75 %ile) 750 / 960
Student Services
Remedial Services
Academic / Career Counseling
PT Cost-defraying Employment
Career Placement
On-Campus Day Care
Library Facility
Student Living
First-time Room / Board Required
Dorm Capacity 2,985
Meals per Week 21
Room Fee $4,871
Board Fee $2,134
Student Financial Aid Details
How many students use Financial Aid, and how much do they use?
North Carolina Central University ranks 652nd for the average student loan amount.
Average Users % of Attendees
Federal Grant Aid $3,646 731 = 64%
State & Local Grant Aid $1,916 780 = 69%
Institutional Grant Aid $1,309 445 = 39%
Student Loan Aid $6,420 913 = 80%
Any financial aid type 1,077
These same scumbags scream that America is a racist nation, blacks don’t have a chance of succeeding, and all that nonsense. If one iota of what they said were true, then this Crystal garbage would be a nothing, and ignored by society. Or she’d at least be in prison. That she is not is an indication of how twisted our society really has become.
Meanwhile that white gal in Knoxville who WAS raped, horribly beaten, and murdered by black thugs after they also raped and shot her boyfriend is ignored by the national media. And this is justice??
Guilty!
Unfortunately, a good percentage of the LE community at the municipal, state and federal level are not in their right mind these days. Expect Sheriff's Deputy Mangum to be in uniform any night now, standing at that checkpoint, accusatively asking if you've had anything to drink, and demanding to see your proof of insurance.
I was replying to a post about the author of this excellent article. She apparently had been at Duke and is now at Trinity. In this case I should have copied the original post. In any event, it’s nice to see this article coming from a (former) Duke student.
Bank on it.
Heaven knows where it will go from there.
Mangum is reason alone why Obama and his black racist pals don't belong anywhere near the White House.
I think this column missed the point. If you complete the requirements for a degree a public institution grants it to you. Any boiler plate about lewd activity is just that. No public institution could legally enforce such rules in this day and age and the stripping Mangum was doing was legal. [The turning tricks of course was not.]
And this is probably a good thing. Society would be better off if ALL hookers were progressing towards degrees.
The point is how can such a person actually earn a degree. Who was passing her in what courses. This is the scandal of UNCC granting a degree to someone who was out all hours of the night stripping and turning tricks. What did she learn? Did her courses require that she pass exams? How did she pass such exam? This makes UNCC look like a place where you register for classes, have the US government pay your tuition and after a certain number of registrations you get handed a sheepskin? [And then you get complaints that black college grads do not earn as much as white college grads. Duh.]
Unbelievable.
She’s the ideal liberal - of course they would make sure she gets her degree.
Unfortunately, I don’t think there are too many colleges or universities left that would try to enforce any sort of character standard or non-criminality requirement for a degree. Harvard does still have some verbiage warning against “conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student” but it wasn’t enforced in any disciplinary way even when protestors were throwing the deans down the stairs in ‘68...... [ok, they didn’t quite throw them but they did forcibly remove them from their offices and kick them out of the building......]
If a student commits major infractions against other students (or faculty) there can certainly be a serious disciplinary process, sometimes (so long as it doesn’t involve politically correct protestors attacking conservatives). But in the present age just about any university will allow this clown to graduate if she meets the academic degree requirements.
North Carolina Central University? LOL Aren’t they currently planning a seminar on the under-appreciated ethics of the used car salesman and of the street corner jewelry salesman? LOL
I would bet she is an Obama supporter as well. Her name needs to be spread all over the Internet. The name Crystal Mangum should be a running joke as long as she lives.
Mangum is reason alone why Obama and his black racist pals don't belong anywhere near the White House.
Looks like a mighty happy couple there.
Magnum might get a cabinet position if Obama wins.
I have met one person who is an alumnus of NCCU, who seemed to be a very intelligent, honest, and pleasant person, as far removed from Crystal Mangum as you could get. He had later earned a Ph.D. at a reputable university in another state (not a historically black institution). So I wouldn't assume that every student there is the same. Judging from the ACT and SAT scores, the top quarter of the students would probably do well at an average university.
Yes, it’s “Trinity College of Arts and Sciences” within the larger “Duke University”
When Trinity was re-named Duke for the big donor they kept the name “Trinity” for the main undergraduate college.
So the author is an ‘08 graduate of Duke U. with her degree from the “Trinity College of Arts and Sciences”
Well thank you VR. And Enchante, I agree with you regarding NCC and other schools. My friend took his “going back to school” accounting classes at Winston-Salem State. These schools have such potential, and at the same time are testaments to the failure of the public 1-12 education system. Voucher system anyone? Oh yeah, liberals hate it and blacks vote Dem no matter what. What a shame.
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