At Duke, Things Get Worse...and Worse
Duke president Richard Brodhead has cancelled the lacrosse team's season and initiated formal inquiries into the culture of sports at the university
after the discovery of an e-mail message from a lacrosse player in which he threatened to invite strippers to his room, kill them and cut off their skin.
In accepthing the resignation of the lacrosse coach, Brodhead rightly called the message "sickening and repulsive."
He added: "This episode has touched off angers, fears, resentments, and suspicions that range far beyond this immediate cause. It has done so because the episode has brought to glaring visibility underlying issues that have been of concern on this campus and in this town for some time — issues that are not unique to Duke or Durham but that have been brought to the fore in our midst."
Duke is lucky to have Brodhead as president during this awful situation.
Duke lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen,
who threatened to kill strippers.
What can one say?
