Tribes could not keep armies or devise a currency, but they could issue their own passports, as the Iroquois have famously done (which made their lacrosse team miss a tournament in 2010, after Britain refused to recognise the documents).
One professor, Houston Baker, denounced the lacrosse players as "young white, violent, drunken men veritably given licence to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech".
One writer noted that "You couldn't invent a story so precisely tuned to the outrage frequency of the modern, metropolitan, bien pensant journalist".A striking number of professors were willing to trample all over legal process in their rush to declare the lacrosse players guilty before charge, let along trial.
But there are also sports scholarships for rich white students who play preppie sports such as fencing, squash, sailing, riding, golf and, of course, lacrosse.
She found that though they did not set out to recruit students from wealthy backgrounds, the companies had a penchant for graduates who had been to well-known universities and played varsity sports (lacrosse correlates with success particularly well).
Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.ukON MARCH 13th 2006 the lacrosse team from Duke University, a wealthy private institution in North Carolina, hired two strippers to dance at a party.
The leading synthetic supplier is FieldTurf, a Canadian firm that started out in the late 1980s selling tennis and golf surfaces, and then moved into soccer, football and lacrosse.
The state attorney-general exonerated three white lacrosse players at Duke University who had been accused a year ago of raping and assaulting a black stripper at a party.
Harvard says that legacy preference is only ever a tie breaker in admissions; but with 17 applicants for every place there can be a lot of ties.All this and lacrosse tooMost of the country's research universities and liberal arts colleges grant preferences to legacy students; the practice seems widespread at universities just below the top tier.
On April 6th 2006, 88 faculty members took out a full-page advertisement in the college newspaper condemning the lacrosse players.
However, sports like squash, golf, fencing and lacrosse are now being introduced in poor communities.
