<p>"A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. Frank Lombard, the school's associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested after an Internet sting, according to the FBI's Washington field office and the city's police department."</p>
<p>and???</p>
<p>It doesn’t hurt the school in anyway, its a personal problem the man had and he happened to be employed at Duke. </p>
<p>Why choose this piece of news to report about Duke when plenty of really positive news comes out of the university? Are you trying to make some kind of point? As a CC Senior Advisor you should be reporting both the positive and negative things about Duke or not reporting it at all. </p>
<p>What is your rationale for posting this? Do you think it somehow tarnishes Duke or affects it one bit? </p>
<p>I don’t think so, spend your time posting important stuff.</p>
<p>I agree and am actually surprised that Dave posted that. Disappointed really- do we dig up all of the trash on every school and employee. Come on Dave- what’s your beef with Duke?</p>
<p>lol, every time the administrators post a story about a college everyone on the board acts like there is some special bias. Same thing recently happened over at the USC forum.</p>
<p>If this had been a story about an official at HYPSM, etc., it would still be notable on a college forum. The particular school doesn’t matter to me. I recall about a billion or so postings here about the “guilty” Duke LAX players. That was a "personal problem the [men] had and [they] happened to be [students] at Duke. Same scenario.</p>
<p>I have absolutely nothing against Duke, but college-related news is news. This time it involves a Duke administrator. Tomorrow it might involve an administrator at another school. If it’s college-related, it has a place here.</p>
<p>Intelligent CC members can recognize that, when a college administrator or professor has a personal problem or is accused of a horrible crime, as this man has been, it does not reflect poorly on the employer college.</p>
<p>On the other hand, too many CC members put the “elite” institutions like Duke high up on a pedestal and aspire to admission at such colleges simply because of their prestigious names and often without really determining if this school is truly a good fit. </p>
<p>Thus, posts such as this one by Dave are not merely the dishing of dirt. Instead, they can serve as helpful reminders that colleges and universities are made up of people … some of them very wonderful, some sadly flawed. And, whatever college you–or your child–attends, you should expect to encounter (and perhaps be influenced by) spectacular individuals as well as major scum bags (or at least some minor ones).</p>
<p>I have no problem with this thread and feel like it’s a legitimate discussion to be made. This site is not an avenue to advertise all the positives of elite colleges. It’s a site to talk about anything college related (and often times, discussion that has nothing to do with college are very tolerated… as evidenced by all the post in the politics section), so I don’t see any reason why this one should be omitted.</p>
<p>I am posting to bump it up.</p>
<p>Man, that guy is sick and they have tons of evidence. Wonder how long he will remain on “unpaid administrative leave”. I wonder who has physical custody of the son.</p>
<p>Dave and Sally, good for you. I’m just waiting for someone to come along and say because the link was from Fox News it never happened.</p>
<p>Hmm let’s not forget the Duke Lacross Scandal. The unjust actions taken by the Group of 88. The actions of the President who pretty much acted as they are guilty.</p>
<p>LOL damn why is my school so horny :(</p>
<p>So it’s bad to post this trash about Duke but it’s ok to praise the school? I actually think that we should dig up all the trash of the Ivy leagues. When they are proudly saying the names of their famous graduates, we should publish the name of the infamous ones. The ones that destroyed main street, the ones that use their power to get away from the IRS if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>^ You mean like the Unabomber? ;)</p>
<p>LOL (10char)</p>
<p>recall about a billion or so postings here about the “guilty” Duke LAX players. </p>
<p>thank-you, Dave, for posting this story, and I believe you when you say other controversial stories will get posted on other college sites. Students must learn to be shrewd and to make judgments about the character of those around them, including adults, teachers, politicians and people in power anywhere in Amercia, starting with their own backyard and their own offices and colleges.</p>
<p>Adults at Duke were largely silent when our student athletes were served up on a platter by the Durham district attorney, a man with an election to lose, a pension that could be increased if only, no ethics and little intellect… and sector of Duke teachers for an unprecedented televised distortion party and and a disgraceful witch hunt that violated everything we know about due process.</p>
<p>My son just graduated from Duke. I remember well the outrageous comments of many CC parents and posters who got caught up in gleeful distortions and lies. Some of those posts from my peers on this site were truly frightening for me as a parent. </p>
<p>My son was on the same hall as many freshman lacrosse players and was told exactly what happened by them at their stupid, heartless party. What he was told was exactly what thousands of dollars of investigation finally bore out as the Truth. </p>
<p>Looking back, it was a good thing I had purchased two front row seats to the 50th anniversary of The Crucible with Liam Neeson on Broadway on one of our last trips together as a family before shelling out college tuition took over our budgets. </p>
<p>Arthur Miller had nothing on the degree of corruption in Durham and on the hundreds of local and national players who jumped on the distortion and lies band wagon before due process had taken place and despite obvious gaping holes in the evidence. The cast of fools in the Duke Lacrosse case may have begun with the tasteless, insensitive party and the bad decision that the young men made which cost their coach his job.</p>
<p>But the cast of villains who took over have much more to live down. I regret that my son’s four years were marked by the Duke Lacrosse story, but I also regret that he graduated in one of the greatest recessions in our nation’s history. Can you truly regret though…the learning curve of witnessing such a Morality Play or witnessing the End of the Delusions on Wall Street? As a parent, I recognize that the truth always exposes corruption eventually… and teaches valuable if painful life lessons. </p>
<p>The students at Duke by the way, are all talking about the evidence against this man accused of crimes against a child of five…and are shocked and apalled, as they should be. </p>
<p>However, due process is the foundation of our civilization. Duke alum and students understand this. Perhaps all of the faculty respects due process a bit more now as well. Criminal charges and other consequences will take place based on the evidence. </p>
<p>Let’s hope that those who locally investigate and prosecute this case are decent adults with ethics and intelligence so that if this man is found guilty, he will be punished.</p>
<p>My son’s fellow classmates from all over the planet at Duke were among the most wonderful, caring young adults you will find in America, all heading off to difficult new chapters in life, many who will do challenging things in this world…he had many inspiring teachers, and he graduated with great appreciation for his four years at Duke.</p>
<p>class of 2010…have a wonderful four years…</p>
<p>^ Your son this, your son that, so what’s your point? </p>
<p>Hookem, I was refering to Tim Geithner , the Dartmouth graduate. </p>
<p>Theodore John Kaczynski aka the Unabomber:Harvard University</p>