April 14, 2006
Duke Lacrosse Scandal Escalates
Amid new revelations about a criminal investigation into an alleged gang rape by men's lacrosse players at Duke University, the team's head coach, Mike Pressler, resigned last week. The institution's president also canceled the team's season.
Later, the president, Richard H. Brodhead, announced a five-step plan to respond to "angers, fears, resentments, and suspicions" that the alleged rape of a black woman by white men has provoked, both on the campus and in the surrounding city of
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