D.B. Doucette wrote:
 
> Now that some of you in the Durham area have confirmed in your posts that
> the incident was known of in the community LONG BEFORE the Fosters story
> was released, I'll ask:
 
I don't recall anyone saying they've known about this for some time. In fact, I don't even recall anyone saying they definitely know what happened. It just happens to be one of the top topics (boy, that sounds weird) among hockey fans right now, and everyone's trying to dig up info.
 
> No report of a fracas of that size made the papers until this week ??
> >From the same paper that only today ran a story on student senators (one of
> legal age) drinking at a campus meeting ?  From the same paper that
> publishes license suspensions ?  (see www.fosters.com)
 
A "fracas of that size?" Do you have info no one else does? I don't know that anyone ouside the people involved, and maybe the police, know details of that sort yet.
 
The student "senators" (actually, student body president and vice president) drank at a campus meeting at the dedication of the new library. In October. Two months prior to the incident involving the hockey players. Think the Foster's sat on that story, too, maybe so the student politicians wouldn't be suspended for the all-important game - I mean, meeting - with the administration over campus parking?
 
> Coach Umile:  It's not about the crime, it's about the cover-up....
 
And one more time: I still don't see how there was a cover-up here. Umile reported the incident to the athletic director (who, we hope, reported it to President Leitzel). He didn't report it to the press - but that's not his responsibility anyway. He was under no institutional (i.e., NC$$) compulsion to suspend or otherwise discipline his players. (And, actually, he may have disciplined them in some off-ice way; we have no way of knowing.) In fact, I'm fairly certain he's not under any NC$$ compulsion to suspend them even if they are found guilty. He may be under a moral one, but like I said before, that's a whole different debate, one which would more appropriately discussed after we know all the details and the legal system has declared who was guilty of what.
 
George Downing
 
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