Readers' Note: John F. Burness is Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations at Duke University. According to his bio description Burness "oversees the coordination and management of communication programs and strategies with the university's various publics."
I just sent him the following email. I'll let you know what I hear back.
John
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Dear Mr. Burness:
I blog as John in Carolina and hold two degrees from the university.
I've posted often on what's called "the Duke lacrosse case" (actually an extremely harmful hoax), typically on the biased and inflammatory media coverage, especially that of the Raleigh News & Observer.
At the DU website I just entered "duke lacrosse" in the search box.
Below are the first two "hits." Both took me to a main page - Duke .>>> News & Communications - which link to statements, articles, etc.
I've two questions I hope you'll answer:
1) Why was the head: Duke University Duke Lacrosse: Information on Sexual Assault... used in the first place?
2) Why does the university continue to use it now ?
Thank you for your attention to my questions.
Sincerely,
John
www.johnincarolina.com
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Duke University | Duke Lacrosse: Information on Sexual Assault ...
... the year winner whose teams won eight conference championships at Hofstra University, was announced as the new head coach of the Duke's men's lacrosse team at ...
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/?WT.cg_n=Lacrosse%20Group - 19k - 2006-08-15 - Cached
Duke University | Duke Lacrosse: Information on Sexual Assault ...
... the year winner whose teams won eight conference championships at Hofstra University, was announced as the new head coach of the Duke's men's lacrosse team at ...
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/ - 19k - 2006-08-15 - Cached
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Duke lacrosse: Inquiry to a Duke Vice President
Posted by JWM at 1:46 PM
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Oops.
The intranet of a large corporation has a lot of moving pieces and the minions of PC-dom may not have gotten the latest memo and properly read between the lines.
Be sure to get a screen shot of that.
-C
The "60 Minutes" season opener should close the Duke case
Michael Gaynor
August 16, 2006
Michael Gaynor
"60 Minutes" premiered on September 24, 1968. Its website promotes the show as "the CBS News magazine providing a blend of hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news" and "the most successful broadcast in television history." The current plan is for its thirty-ninth season to begin with a blockbuster expose on the Duke case . . .
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