William Clemm, assistant director for Morgan’s student center, admits the school has been cautious with the team—which, after all, is a club, not subject to NCAA rules. “We just don’t want to take chances,” he says.
Clemm says the lacrosse team has unrealistic goals. “They want the same recognition as the football team, unlimited use of the field,” he says. “The band can’t even get that.”
Lacrosse has long had a reputation as a sport for whites, but a 2006 incident, in which members of Duke University’s lacrosse team were accused of raping an African-American woman hired as a stripper, seemed to widen the sport’s racial divide. The rape allegations proved to be completely false, but the students’ conduct—including the possible use of racial slurs—lingered in the minds of many.

See the full article from “Baltimore Magazine”