Responding to "Call home immediately" comments

Readers Note: What follows are my responses to parts or all of the comments on the Call home immediately thread.

Commenters are in italics; my responses in plain.

John
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Dear Commenters,

To Anon @ 6:10 PM

Thanks for your nice words but my advice was very simple, wasn’t it?

It was also in my best interest.

Why didn’t Duke do the same?


To Anon @ 2:42 PM

You say, “good sense …is not a quality exhibited by more than a handful of ‘adults’ at Duke.”

I agree and continue to wonder why there were so many at Duke who fell for what was obviously an impossible story.

I mean a young woman's brutally beaten, strangled, and gang-raped by three physically big atheletes in a small bathroom and all four emerge from the bathroom after a 30-minute life-and-death struggle with not one of the four having so much as a single broken bone or a cut which required even one stitch.

A woman who's been beaten by a single strong male for 5-minutes is a terrible sight to see.

How did Duke find so many faculty and staff who'd beleive such a crazy story?

Is Duke still hiring such people?

Anon @ 10:17 AM said:

“In fact, Duke officials advised the players not to engage independent counsel nor tell anyone, including their parents. Duke's behavior from the beginning is consistent with the factual allegations in the Ekstrand complaint, i.e. that Duke officials conspired with Durham authorities to railroad the lacrosse players.”

I’d like to believe you’re wrong, but so far Duke hasn’t given any of us any reason(s) to believe you are.

Anon @ 11:26 AM said:

"Uglier and Dukier."

How about “Much uglier and much Dukier?”

Ken in Dallas @ 12:08 PM notes with tongue-in-cheek Bob Steel “gets his information from the newspapers.”

Won’t it be interesting to learn what information President Brodhead and DU Police Director Dean made available to Steel that we don’t know yet.

Once discovery starts, Steel’s surely not going to say, “All I knew was what I read in the newspapers and what Brodhead, Dean and the others were telling me. And as they’ve said during their depositions, they were in the same boat I was in. We all only knew what we read in the newspapers.”

RedMountain @ 12:25 PM said: “I have stated before that Duke went way overboard in terms of it's cooperation with the Durham police.”

Red Mountain then asked: “Was that due to an interest in getting the case resolved quicky or due to a conspiracy by the Duke consortium to frame the players?”

Red Mountain, can we agree that you could also have asked: “ Was that due to an interest in getting the case resolved quickley due to a conspiracy by the Duke consortium to frame the players?”

You didn’t ask that question.

But all it would have taken for you to ask it was to drop “or” out the compound question you actually asked.

Are you leading up to something?

Anon @ 2:37 PM said: "...about my wife and ME...", not "and I."

Thanks for the correction which I’ve now made.

Ken in Dallas @ 2:37 PM queried regarding when “Steel direct Brodhead to finally meet with the players' parents and offer a sincere apology?”

I don’t know that Steel “direct[ed]" Brodhead to meet with the players’ parents. I'm in the dark on that.

Thank you to you all for commenting.

John