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Tuesday, April 4, 2006 12:00 AM

Duke exposed

The rape allegations against the university's lacrosse team have laid bare racial tensions in Durham, and united town and gown against the same target: The "privileged."
By Alice Bumgarner

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  • Tuesday, April 4, 2006 09:56 AM

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    I live three blocks from the Buchanan Rd. Lacrosse house. I am the first to admit that Duke, and Durham, is beset from within by a alot of horrible shit. Crippling poverty vs. heartless wealth, pervasive racism, and a small but visible group of college students (found nationwide) who are just vile people.

    But tonight a group of women, many of them black women, will represent Duke for the National Women's Basketball Championship. They are athletes too, and they speak for their school and their adoptive city just as loudly as any disgraced Lacrosse team.

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