One of the criticisms of the Duke lacrosse team is that it had a
“pack” mentality and was “clannish.” While some people see this as a
negative, others call it team bonding. As former Duke basketball player
Jay Bilas says in an article in the current issue of Duke Magazine:

“Companies
spend a lot of money in team-building exercises, trying to get
teams to spend more time together. That’s looked upon as being
a good thing,” he says. “Teammates have spent time together
off the field for years without anything like this having happened,” he
adds, referring to the lacrosse party and its aftermath.

Meanwhile, one of the most vocal critics of the lacrosse team is one
Nick Shungu, a senior. He’s so upset that he is proposing a
“bias-response team.” Shungu, who is black, also related tales of
alleged scary racial incidents to the magazine reporter. But let’s take
a look at Shungu’s credentials as described in Duke Magazine:  

Shungu is a Reginald Howard Scholar (the merit-scholarship program
is named for the first African-American president of the student
government), as well as a facilitator for Duke’s Center for Race
Relations; a co-instructor for a house course on leadership in the
black community; a member of the President’s Council on Black Affairs;
and a volunteer for a mentoring program for African-American boys. 

If Shungu were white, and the groups he joined all had “white” in
their names or their mission statements, he would be called a racist.
He might also be accused of traveling in a “pack” or called “clannish.”
But, no. At Duke he gets the moral high ground to criticize and to urge
more hate-crime enforcement.