What Can You Say About Tomorrow?
Congrats to Dan Carlson for correctly naming "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" by Travis as the Second Monday Song of the Day.
This seems like the obvious answer to the question, but a committee composed of Duke faculty agreed that the recent behavior of the lacrosse team at their university was completely unacceptable while not going as far as to recommend the dissolution of the team as a whole. I'm not even really sure why the option of disbanding the lacrosse program at Duke was an option since the issue has nothing to do with the game of lacrosse itself and everything to do with the culture of violence that is sometimes propogated by excessive drinking.
If Duke administrators are concerned with the unacceptable actions of the lacrosse team, perhaps they should understand that those actions are definitely not isolated to the lacrosse team, but are probably symptomatic of a larger problem that exists on their campus in terms of alcohol abuse and the methods that are used to enforce the university's exisiting policy in regards to alcohol.
I'm not really sure if I buy into the argument that the nature of the sport of lacrosse somehow contributed to this incident, because if involvement in sports that include violent collisions and aggressive behavior were to blame, there would probably be a much higher incidence of illegal and unacceptable behavior among football and hockey players nationwide.
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Added at 4:49 P.M.
P.S. Joey Halbert was a lacrosse goalie in high school. I'm pretty sure this fact has no bearing whatsoever on what I wrote above but it warrants mentioning.
posted by Justin @ 5/02/2006 11:38:00 AM
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Yeah.
Interesting that Joey played lacrosse in high school. As far as the rest of your post goes, I think the point at Duke is that the lacrosse team has been allowed to run wild and get away with things that other teams would have never been able to. Thus, if they can find no one (coach, players, etc.) that is willing to promote and instill discipline and character, then maybe they need to disband the time. That is the issue at Duke in my opinion. But all the stuff about alcohol is true as well.
Chris,
I would agree with you that the average lacrosse player at Duke comes from a very different background than your average player on the football or even basketball teams. Most of those who play lacrosse come from upper-middle class backgrounds and probably are able to get away with more on campus because of connections. The combination of arrogance and alcohol can sometimes become volatile.
About Mr. Brown, by O.A.R. thank you very much.
Roseberry
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