The house where the "Mungowitz Rape" never happened was torn down.
Mike Schoenfeld, communications god-king of Duke University, was asked if the house where Mungowitz was not raped held any special meaning for the University.
"Who?" said Schoenfeld. Sad, really, that he would pretend that this incident that never even happened had never happened. Typical.
Now, it's true that the problem with identifying the house as the place where Mungowitz was not raped, at least according to some observers, is that there is no reason to stop there. Other people, more famous people, were not raped there. George Washington was never raped in that house. More recently, Mahatma Gandhi was not raped there, on several occasions. In particular, Mr. Gandhi was not raped in the house on December 21, 1978, or any other earlier, or later, nights.
Most recently of all, Chrystal Mangum was not raped at that house.
In fact, we could make a really long list of people not raped there.
So, I hope that the media will start to refering to the house at 610 N. Buchanan Street in Durham as the "house where Mungowitz was not raped," since that is as good an identifier as the ones the media insists on using.
Can you help?
(Nod to BH)
3 comments:
At least if the property is sold for residential use the owners won't have to worry about the poltergeist of the individual that was never raped and murdered there.
OMG, really? "Mangum, the accuser in the lacrosse case, is currently facing charges of of attempted murder, arson, assault and battery, identity theft, injury to personal property, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor child abuse." Wow. Just, wow.
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The tear-down of the Grace Place is something to be celebrated.
The building was really out of character with the rest of the neighbourhood, and the property was far more valuable as land than as an existing structure. Since the properties in Trinity Park that Duke acquired were bought to deal with the growing problems of out-of-control parties in group houses, and were to be sold with covenants requiring single family use, a tear-down makes a lot of sense.
Since the property had already been purchased before Nan G. knew it existed, as atonement for Nan K's turning that part of Trinity Park into a toxic waste dumping ground, the only surprise is that the university made a sound financial decision with their best economist in the wrong hemisphere :-P
If the press mob had only thought to drive around the neighbouring streets (e.g. Watts, one street back), and look at the houses that weren't blighted, they'd have realised that the original problem was not race at all, but a dumping of toxic frats boys in the middle of a neighbourhood where they were not class appropriate. Alas, that would not have made for good telly.
Initially, Duke and DCPD didn't take the complaints seriously; the reason why the neighbourhood initially gave credence to the allegations was the history of appalling behavior either ignored by the university, or so incompetently handled by ALE, the proverbial ham sandwich could have defended itself pro se. The off-east party houses were so such ill-repute, and the post-Hardin DA's office in such disarray, there was little credibility left to reign in great credulity.
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Also, if you're going to rename the house ""house where Mungowitz was not raped", the street needs to be renamed to JM Buchanan Blvd.
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