Letter to the Community from Duke President Brodhead

Laxpower.com, a website dedicated to all things lacrosse, has a helpful compilation of information concerning the incident involving the Duke University lacrosse team. Duke’s president’s “Letter to the Community” is worth reading. As the president indicates, the lacrosse team incident is not unique to lacrosse, NCAA athletics, or Duke University, but is bringing to the surface deeper issues of the current landscape of higher education and college student culture. Duke’s president seems genuinely concerned to address these issues at its roots and make changes to the university where needed. We’ll see.