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Some Swaggerers Are More Equal Than Others

By K.C. Johnson

Four items involving groups of men at Duke and the media:1.) ?Team has swaggered for years? --headline, N&O, 9 April 2006 2.) ?The charges track the noisy passage of a championship lacrosse team with a reputation for a swaggering sense of entitlement and privilege.? --N&O, 9 April 2006 3.) ?But they have a reputation for swagger and rowdiness, according to The Chronicle, the student newspaper, which wrote last week, "Players frequently walk around with girls--sometimes called 'lacrosstitutes' by their peers--in tow," and have been known to kick in doors and urinate out windows. History professor Peter Wood, who often has lacrosse players in his course on Native Americans (who invented the game), complained that team members sometimes signed in to class and then walked out, without bothering to sit down...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).