Alleged gang rape at Duke.

My roommate just brought this to my attention as her girl Manju (they are both from the League of Pissed of Voters w00t!) has participated in the protesting of Duke’s lackadaisical ignorance to charges of gang rape.

In as ugly a story as is likely to be reported in college sports this year, a black exotic dancer says she was beaten, strangled, and raped at a party hosted at a house rented by the three Duke lacrosse captains. The woman, who says she was told she’d be dancing for a few men at a bachelor party, told police she fought fiercely against her attackers, losing four fingernails in the process.
Initially, the lacrosse team denied it all. It was all overblown, they said, although they did admit hiring a dancer and doing some drinking. The drinking was certainly no surprise. The Winston-Salem Journal reported this week that 15 of the 47 players on the team had previous misdemeanor chargers “stemming from drunken and disruptive behavior.” In fact, police have reportedly been called to the house four times since September.
And then the police found four red, polished, broken fingernails at the house.

via SFChronicle.
As Tiffany points out at Blackfeminism.org, not only is this an example of elitism, race, class, and gender clearly playing out in the rape of a black woman by a group of white men (AND how it is dealt with by authorities), it also highlights the negativity (aggressiveness) of athletic culture, especially on university campuses.
This story is awful, but these activists are rightfully making some noise. Duke’s failure to respond effectively sets a precedent that this type of aggressive and violent behavior is acceptable.