How can Duke supporters respond most effectively to inaccuracies involving the lacrosse incident?
President Brodhead provided the best response when he offered the following advice to alumni at the 2006 reunion: “Nothing has pained me more about this episode than the notion that people don’t want to say where they went to college, because that name is now a source of embarrassment. If you are ever in a situation where you find yourself in that light, you’ve just got to turn that around. You’ve got to walk up and say some true thing about this place that is a source of pride and, Lord knows, there are many. And you know what? At the end of the day, this place will be known as it is. It will be known for what it is. And I hope this will be a better place after this episode. But it won’t be an altogether different place. It will be known for the excellence that characterizes us now. And that’s all of our work, to bring that day about.
