Living through Lacrosse featured a panel of those involved directly with the Duke lacrosse incident, ranging from the senior vice president for public affairs and government relations of Duke University to a former Duke student who was serving as a staff member of the Duke Chronicle in 2007.
Members of the panel assessed what happened during the course of the incident and then discussed what could be learned from this case and what might have been done differently.
"... The media had rushed to stereotype so fast in this case, and it is a case that was a perfect PR storm. It combined race, sex, class, privilege, the South, the history, and also, from my perspective trying to manage through this, the variable that made this story so powerful in the end was Duke University, which had been on a pedestal as an institution for handling academics and athletics right."
- John Burness
