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A lacrosse player s e-mail rant about killing strippers and cutting their skin off in his Duke University dorm room has started a chain reaction resulting in his coach s resignation, the season s cancellation and an internal probe into the university s response to alleged violence by athletes.Wednesday s cascade of events was the latest fallout from allegations that three players on the lacrosse team raped an exotic dancer at an off-campus party on March 13. The players were white and the stripper was a black student at a nearby state college. CBS News correspondent Trish Regan reports that the president of Duke Uni
stanley canada versity, Richard Brodhead, announced that five separate commissions will investigate the team s behavior and the school s response to the scandal.The aim, he told Regan will be To look at our own behavior, to look at the history of the lacrosse team here, and then maybe most i
stanley kubek mportantly, just to ask ourselves the question mdash; are there things we could do to teach a sense of responsibility But some think the commissions are not enough. Professor Houston Baker, who teaches English at the university, called for changes at th
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