Duke Lax Rape Accuser Graduates

[StickerShock]

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[Northstarmom]

<p>I don’t understand why she never was sued for slander or charged for making false accusations.</p>

[epistrophy]

<p>The lead:</p>

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It seems anyone can get a college degree these days-especially if they go to North Carolina Central University.

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<p>Well, it seems that anyone can get a column published in a college newpaper - no matter how tired, how smug, how flat-footed the prose - especially if they go to Duke.</p>

[razorsharp]

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Well, it seems that anyone can get a column published in a college newpaper - no matter how tired, how smug, how flat-footed the prose - especially if they go to Duke.

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<p>I can’t believe you read the same article I read. It was well-written, well-argued, appropriate in tone given Magnum’s actions, and pretty much sumed up the appropriate respond to a horrible person who falsely accused others of felonies.</p>

<p>It is interesting that NCCU would give a degree to a woman who is so mentally unstable that she cannot be criminally prosecuted for her lies given to the police.</p>

[epistrophy]

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I can’t believe you read the same article I read.

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<p>Me, either.</p>

<p>(Let’s put it this way: a column that is so predictable, so lacking in verbal and intellectual freshness that its contents can be summarized in, oh, a sentence or two without losing anything essential is, in my view, a column that isn’t much worth reading.)</p>

[razorsharp]

<p>The author makes several good points. One that I had not fully appreciated until she wrote it was about the difference between who is graduating in 2008.</p>

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Crystal Mangum is not a victim, and her actions meant two other former members of the Class of 2008 (their names are Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, for the record) didn’t graduate last weekend. Mangum’s lies stole a year of their college careers, and it makes me sick to think of her celebrating her achievement while they (along with millions of legitimate rape victims harmed by her dishonesty) struggle to piece their lives back together.

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<p>A lie cost two duke students a year of college while Magnum celebrates her graduation.</p>

<p>Another point the author makes is what about NCCU’s honor code? How could Magnum graduate given NCCU’s honor code?</p>

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Unsurprisingly, those actions constitute flagrant violations of NCCU’s honor code, which prohibits: “lewd, indecent or obscene conduct (whether public or private)”; “violation of the alcohol policy, including binge drinking, use or personal possession of alcoholic beverages by undergraduate students;” and the real doozie, “knowingly making in public a false [oral or] written or printed statement with the intent to deceive and/or mislead or injure the character or reputation of another.”

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[epistrophy]

<p>OK, fair enough. </p>

<p>(I’m not sure I agree with your assessment, but I can certainly see your points.)</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>it’s been two years already???</p>

<p>But that article really gave me more information than I wanted to know :p</p>

<p>and I agree w razorsharp</p>

[coureur]

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<p>I don’t understand why she never was sued for slander or charged for making false accusations.<<</p>
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<p>Charging her for making false accusations might have been a good idea, but suing her for slander would have been a waste of time. The fact that she was working as stripper in the first place would suggest that she probably doesn’t have enough money to be worth going after.</p>