Summa cum loony
guest column
By: Kristin Butler
Issue date: 5/15/08 Section: Columns
Last update: 5/15/08 at 8:46 AM EST
Last update: 5/15/08 at 8:46 AM EST
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Standards of integrity there have long been dismal: This is, after all, the school that gave violent felon Solomon Burnette a diploma in 2007. Burnette, you may recall, robbed two Duke students at gunpoint in 1997.
After finishing a 13-month prison sentence, he had the audacity not only to enroll in Arabic classes on our campus in April 2007; Burnette also penned a column I and many others interpreted as inciting physical violence against white Dukies in his student newspaper.
Unfortunately, however, 2008 marks a new low... even for NCCU.
Just this month, the university graduated Crystal Mangum, the drug-addled, mentally unstable prostitute who falsely accused three lacrosse players of raping her two years ago.
Mangum is an accomplished liar and criminal, and a credible school shouldn't have allowed her within 50 miles of its graduation ceremony.
Indeed, this is a woman who has maintained for more than two years that 20, five, and finally three Duke lacrosse players violated her orally, vaginally and anally in a bathroom the size of a broom closet. In her final version of the "assault," Mangum claimed this was possible because she was magically suspended in midair (by hooks and pulleys, perhaps?) as the three men attacked her.
In reality, Mangum-who arrived at the lacrosse players' party so drunk and high she could barely stand-may have feared another psychiatric commitment the morning of March 14, 2006, and so she accused three men of rape to garner sympathy.
As an aside, if anyone at NCCU still believes her story, I would invite them to review court records indicating Mangum had DNA from two unidentified men in her rectum; two more in her pubic region; one man in her vagina; and four to five men on her panties-none of whom were lacrosse players (a physical impossibility because Mangum said her attackers wore no condoms during the "rape").
And although her bold-faced lies ruined three young men's lives, they were a jackpot for Mangum: Within days, she was already using the "assault" to hustle pain meds from emergency room doctors, claiming "excruciating pain from the... beating." Sensing a lucrative civil settlement on the horizon, Mangum even bragged to a security guard at her strip club that she was "going to get paid by the white boys."
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Ortega
posted 5/15/08 @ 12:17 PM EST
As Dennis Prager said,
"The rape of a name is also a rape. A false accusation of rape can be as devastating to a man and his family as a real rape can be to a woman and her family. (Continued…)
Michael
posted 5/15/08 @ 1:23 PM EST
Great Column..One that is long overdue. Kristin has the "backbone" to tell it like it is..The AA amd Woeens (giggle) Studies Programs have contributed to this "mindset" and adgenda driven age. (Continued…)
Peyton
posted 5/15/08 @ 1:59 PM EST
"After finishing a 13-month prison sentence..."
Are you suggesting that after someone has paid their societal dues, they should continue to be shunned and persecuted? Wow - punished for the rest of your life. (Continued…)
Anyone Holding
posted 5/15/08 @ 3:19 PM EST
"It seems that anyone can get a college degree these days-especially if they go to North Carolina Central University."
I think just the first paragraph will undo 90% of all the hard work and progress made between Duke, Durham, and NCCU. (Continued…)
Mike
posted 5/15/08 @ 4:43 PM EST
Kristin, are you saying that anyone the violates code of conduct rules at a campus should not graduate? If that is so, what should happen to the thousands of Duke students who are under the legal drinking age who continuously get drunk and high on Duke's campus, be treated. (Continued…)
Don't forget me!
posted 5/15/08 @ 4:53 PM EST
I also graduated from NCCU. I demanded that the lax house at 610 Buchanan be burned down. Then, I backed Mike Nifong, even after he was found to have violated criminal laws and ethical rules. (Continued…)
Or me either!
posted 5/15/08 @ 5:15 PM EST
I received law and bachelor's degrees from NCCU. I convicted a Duke lacrosse player for noise violations even though another Judge threw out the case against his co-defendant for lack of evidence and for taking up important judicial time. (Continued…)
Remember me!
posted 5/15/08 @ 5:21 PM EST
I am a historian and a graduate of NCCU. During a very tense forum at NCCU, before the lacrosse indictments, I pushed Mike Nifong to make arrests, when I asked him: "Those lacrosse players met the profile. (Continued…)
I was there too!
posted 5/15/08 @ 5:28 PM EST
I graduated from NCCU. Even after the North Carolina Attorney General dismissed all charges against the Duke lax players and said they were "innocent," I was a Nifong apologist, saying: "He [Nifong] might have been wrong in some instances, but I don't think he was totally wrong. (Continued…)
Blessed and Highly Favored
posted 5/15/08 @ 5:31 PM EST
Kristin,
I am appalled and sad for you because you have so much hatred in you, that you have taken (2) people and judged NCCU as well as a community by the actions of those (2) students. (Continued…)
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