http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dukelax/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:27:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419186/posts The "Duke 88" consisted of 88 Duke professors who signed an ad which implicitly assumed that Duke lacrosse players raped a black stripper, an allegation that proved to be entirely fraudulent. The ad praised protesters who had put lacrosse players' photos on "wanted" posters, associated "what happened to this young woman" with "racism and sexism," and suggested that the lacrosse players were getting privileged treatment because of their race. The ad appeared almost four years ago. Stuart Taylor takes a look at what has happened since to some of the 88 thoroughly wrongheaded professors who signed it. First, according to... Power Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419186/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:27:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410682/posts Much of academia appears to have a disregard of due process and a bias against white males. You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in recent history, and whose professors -- 88 of them -- signed an ad implicitly presuming guilt, and whose president came close to doing the same would have learned some lessons. The facts are otherwise. They also suggest that Duke University's ugly abuse in 2006 and 2007 of its now-exonerated lacrosse players -- white males accused by a black stripper and hounded by a mob hewing... National Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410682/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:15:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351468/posts DURHAM (WTVD) -- An overtime scandal at the Durham Police Department will cost a high-ranking officer her job. Sources told Eyewitness News Deputy Chief B.J. Council is leaving the department. Eyewitness News has learned Council was placed on administrative duty Tuesday and will be out of her job by Friday. Her departure stems from an internal probe of a Durham police officer's overtime pay. That officer earned more than $62,000 in overtime, exceeding the officer's actual salary. Sources said the officer's overtime was approved by the police department's second-in-command, who is Council. A news conference is planned for Wednesday. WTVD-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351468/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:24:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329745/posts Not content with the mess they created when the university threw innocent lacrosse team players to the wolves following a manifestly false accusation of group rape, Duke university has now instituted a policy for handling rape charges manifestly unfair to the accused. KC Johnson whose work in defense of the lacrosse team was outstanding, has exposed this outrage as well oin his site, Durham in Wonderland. Three Duke University students were the victims of the highest-profile fraudulent rape claim in modern American history. That fact alone should make the University particularly sensitive to the dangers of false rape allegations, and... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329745/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:03:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282934/posts It's the gays, no doubt about it. No, wait. It's those darned communal-living enclaves. Scratch that. It's Duke University and President Obama. That's who done it. Predictably irrational responses from the usual Internet riffraff. Those braying, brave bloggers -- brave, that is, as long as they're hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet -- would have us believe that those groups and others are responsible for the alleged sexual assault of a 5-year-old boy by the Duke University administrator who adopted him and is accused of trying to pimp him out so that others could abuse him. Frank Lombard, associate... http://www.newsobserver.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282934/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:29:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282809/posts We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black female stripper. It was front-page news coast to coast, as it had all the elements of a mainstream-media cause célèbre: the perfect victim and the perfect villains, a “downtrodden” black woman of modest means and three “privileged” white college boys. Thus did the hard-left alliance of media, academia, and a Democrat prosecutor try its best to lynch the three, and if the stripper’s story hadn’t changed with the wind, the students could very well be sitting in... http://www.thenewamerican.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282809/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:17:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281900/posts A black topless dancer lies about a rape that never happened. Three young white men are brought up on the charges and brought to the brink of having their lives totally ruined. Al Sharpton marches. (And he still never apologized). The media sings loudly. Now, the media is silent. And this case should get just as much publicity as any other. But it won't. It won't because it involves a homosexual researcher from the University who molested his own adopted five year old son. ...and also gave offered him out to other homosexual pedophiles online who wished to molest him.... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281900/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281811/posts A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage. Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account. Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won't: Frank Lombard is the... American Thinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281811/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:48:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281243/posts A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage. Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account. Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won't: Frank Lombard is the... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281243/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:07:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281066/posts It looks like Duke University has another rape case on its hands. This one may hurt the university nearly as much as the one that rocked its campus back in 2006. Unlike the previous case, this one appears to involve a credible confession of sexual abuse. Like the previous case, crucial facts are already being filtered through the prism of identity politics. Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281066/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:12:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263925/posts History and social analysis of the Duke lacrosse case, retold in part from original documents; compared and contrasted with the social history of the Scottsboro trials. Amazon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263925/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:58:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254217/posts The chancellor and provost at N.C. State have been ordered to appear before a federal grand jury meeting in Raleigh this week, according to federal records released Tuesday afternoon. Chancellor James Oblinger and Provost Larry Nielsen were asked to bring documents related to the hiring, promotion and salary of former first lady Mary Easley. The subpoenas follow reports in The News & Observer about the circumstances surrounding Easley's hiring at N.C. State in 2005 and the expansion of her duties last year, which raised her pay to $170,000. Mary Easley has come under pressure to resign her position from Oblinger... Raleigh News & Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254217/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 21:59:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243897/posts Not long ago, sports writer Selena Roberts compared the Duke lacrosse players to gang members and career criminals. She claimed that the players’ unwillingness to confess to or snitch about a rape (that did not happen) was the equivalent of drug dealers and gang members promoting antisnitching campaigns. When since-disgraced district attorney Mike Nifong whipped up a media posse to rain justice on the drunken, male college students, Roberts jumped on the fastest, most influential horse, using her New York Times column to convict the players and the culture of privilege that created them. Proven inaccurate, Roberts never wrote a... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243897/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 17:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2235759/posts   At the Liestoppers forum, Walt-in-Durham has a detailed rundown of Crystal Mangum’s appearance tonight at UNC. As I have noted previously, it is mindboggling that an academic institution would invite someone who the state AG had, with copious evidence, deemed a false accuser and not allow her to be questioned on the myriad contradictions in her story. It is all the more mindboggling that the only reason for this refusal to allow questions was to prevent the false accuser from saying something that could open her to a lawsuit.I should note, in addition, that Mangum’s p.r. representative had similarly... Durham in Wonderland http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2235759/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:22:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2235292/posts Lacrosse accuser to speak To address justice system, the media Rachel Coleman, Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Updated: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 The woman involved in the Duke University lacrosse team scandal more than three years ago will make a rare public appearance today at UNC as part of an event about social injustice. Crystal Gail Mangum, who accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, will speak in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center about “the harsh realities of minority treatment both in the justice system and the media,” according to the event’s press release. The lacrosse... The Daily Tar Heel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2235292/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:42:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206019/posts It used to be that "stop the presses" meant changing a newspaper's front page because of big breaking news. Now, more and more, it means something else. Daily newspapers are folding or filing for bankruptcy in a number of big cities. Hoping to avoid that, the Raleigh News and Observerand its parent company are about to make some very tough decisions. The presses are still humming at the N&O. Readership is actually higher than its ever been, but the revenue stream is drying up. It started with the loss of classified advertising to the internet with sites like eBay and... WTVD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206019/posts#comment Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:01:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159489/posts Folks, I just got the news from Thomas Loflin, III - attorney for Elmostafa. "I am at long last pleased to inform you that Mr. Elmostafa has settled his malicious prosecution action against Hecht's, its security guard, and Hecht's successor corporations, the main one of which is Macy's Inc." "The settlement came just before we were to go to court on cross-motions for summary judgment as to the issue of liability on December 1st, and before court-ordered mediation set for December 15th. We had a trial date of March 30th (2009)." The amount of money settled for can not be... Liestoppers Meeting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159489/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:12:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143036/posts A federal judge on Thursday rejected the appeal of fallen prosecutor Mike Nifong to keep his case in bankruptcy court. The ruling opens the door for the three exonerated lacrosse players to again pursue malicious prosecution allegations against the former district attorney. In October 2007, Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann filed suit against Nifong, the city of Durham and its police department. The players claimed they suffered personal injury and emotional distress while the prosecutor, police and city pushed ahead with a gang-rape case that was flawed from the start. In their civil suit, the players allege the... Raleigh News & Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143036/posts#comment Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:59:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139428/posts A man charged with the second-degree rape of a then-freshman in February 2007 was arrested on the same charges Nov. 14. Michael Burch, a Durham resident, is currently being held in Durham County Jail on $1.85 million bond, Durham Police Department clerks said. Burch also faces charges of first-degree sexual offense and felony aiding and abetting, for crimes which allegedly occurred June 21, said Candy Clark, an administrative assistant in the Durham County District Attorney's Office. He is scheduled to appear in Criminal District Court Dec. 8 before a grand jury. Michael Burch Burch, who is not a Duke student,... Duke Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139428/posts#comment Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:07:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2138326/posts Duke University is suing its insurance company for refusing to pay any of the settlement costs for the Duke lacrosse case. In federal court papers filed Monday, Duke is seeking financial relief from National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, an affiliate of insurance giant AIG. The case stems from gang-rape allegations that an escort service dancer lodged against three players after a lacrosse team party in June 2006. Before all the facts were gathered and any criminal charges were filed, Duke suspended the lacrosse team's season. The criminal case against the three players crumbled quickly over the next year.... Raleigh News & Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2138326/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:19:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137835/posts Durham, N.C. — A man accused of raping a former Duke student last year is in jail again, charged with the same crime against a different woman. The first victim's father says the new charge could have been prevented if bond had been set higher in the case involving his daughter. Michael Jermaine Burch was charged in February 2007 with the second-degree rape of a Duke freshman in a bathroom during a party at a residence at 405 Gattis St. After getting out of jail on a $50,000 bond, Burch was arrested again Nov. 14 on charges of second-degree rape,... WRAL TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137835/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:00:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114178/posts Raleigh, N.C. — Crystal Mangum thought she was going to die when three people allegedly raped her at a March 13, 2006, party hosted by Duke lacrosse players. "I genuinely believed I was going to die in there, but I did not want to," Mangum writes in her new book, "The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story," which was released online Friday. Mangum was a student at North Carolina Central University in 2006 and also worked as an exotic dancer when she performed at the party. It was there, she claims, that three white members of the team... WRAL News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114178/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:05:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2113291/posts Duke Lacrosse Rape Accuser Insists She Was Attacked in Memoir The woman state prosecutors determined falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape maintains in a memoir that she was attacked. [snip] Click on the link near the bottom Click here to see the release. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2113291/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:07:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112537/posts The woman at the center of the scandal that rocked Duke University, Durham and the lives of the three lacrosse players plans to return to the city next week to promote her new book. Crystal Gail Mangum is scheduled to hold a news conference at the Know Bookstore on Thursday to promote, “The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story.” Magnum will donate $1 from the purchase of each book to help battered women, according to Vincent Clark, a representative for Fire! Products Inc., a film studio that is representing her. Mangum was a student enrolled at North Carolina... WRAL-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112537/posts#comment Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:24:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097425/posts The A&T Register ncatregister.com Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Woman behind Duke lacrosse scandal speaks out Accuser talks to Aggies about being a student again after controversy surrounding trial faded Alexandria Harper Contributor It was called a scandal but made into mockery. The Duke lacrosse case hit radio and television stations by storm in 2007. Reporters from media outlets around the country scrambled to provide day to-day updates on Crystal Gail Mangum, the accuser, and three Duke Lacrosse players; Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, the accused. Mangum, a former exotic dancer and escort, accused these men of sexual assault... The A&T Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097425/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:56:08 GMT