NCAA stooge Myles Brand, who may now become a leading contender for Captain Obvious, reacts to the Duke lacrosse rape allegations thusly:

NCAA president Myles Brand said behavior at a Duke men’s lacrosse party last month was inappropriate, regardless of whether the alleged assault of an exotic dancer results in criminal charges.

Meanwhile, people are joining together in support of the alleged victim and feeling the love over at NC Central:

“There’s a lot of potential violence once Central students really grab hold of this,” said Jami Hyman, a freshman from Winston-Salem. “I wouldn’t be surprised if someone got shot or something.”

With comments like that, I’d be in retreat too.

Finally, we see a classic example of everyone reading whatever they want into the situation; case in point, Old North Durham neighborhood ringleader John Schelp manages to work in his peeve about "campus retail plans," his codeword for the Central Campus Redevelopment project, which some Righteous Townies think is a Duke Plot masterminded by Nan Keohane, Dick Brodhead, Tallman Trask, and the Trilateral Commission to wipe out the 9th Street retail corridor (such as it is) rather than a much-needed effort by the university to replace the armpit of campus with something vaguely aesthetic.

It’s another day without any satellite trucks parked in front of the Duke Chapel. A return to normalcy, or the eye of the storm? I don’t care; I have to deal with some grading and Duke’s IRB. Priorities, priorities.

Your daily Chronicle fix includes a report on Monday’s protest at North Carolina Central University, the historically-black public university where the alleged victim of the Duke lacrosse rape was a part-time student, a look at the effects, or lack thereof, on student recruitment, and a sports columnist ponders the value of non-revenue sports like men’s lacrosse in the wake of the rape allegations.

Last, but not least, go read the op-ed page, because fundamentally I’m too lazy to add all the links.