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Old 01-16-08, 09:33 AM   #3
JSLTIGER
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I think, as a Duke student, that Nifong got what he deserved, and that it's a shame that he's now filed bankruptcy so he can't be sued for all he's worth. What he did was illegal and he should definitely suffer from it.

There is a lot of resentment about Duke in the Durham community, some of it justified, some of it undeserved. Can the students be loud and obnoxious at times? Yes. However, it is the students that have been pumping in $3.4 billion into the local economy and keep Durham on its feet.

As much as I feel for Nifong's family, he didn't just put the three players or even the whole Lacrosse team through hell, he managed to put every student that has attended the school in the last three years through hell. He wronged every student at Duke, and I'd honestly love to get a piece of him for it. Let me tell you, it was not easy to take final exams with thirty helicopters overhead, or with the press running to you every two seconds for an interview to "get a Duke student's opinion" or with the New Black Panther Party wanting to come onto the campus grounds, nor was it fun to be asked all summer:
"Where do you go to school?"
"Duke."
"Oh. You're not on the Lacrosse team are you?" (or some obnoxious variation thereof)

I'm sorry, but Nifong deserves whatever he gets. Now then, if Nancy Grace would just have the guts to apologize, I could move on.
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