article_snippet.sent: Taking a stand: a noose sparked a mass protest on campus on early Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: a noose is a particularly sensitive image in the state, where black residents were once terrorized by lynchings .
article_snippet.sent: At a gathering Wednesday in front of The university's Gothic chapel building, Duke President Richard Brodhead told a crowd of several thousand that a crowd of several thousand presence was a rejection of what the noose symbolizes in a region where lynchings were once used to terrorize black residents.
article_snippet.sent: And Duke President Richard Brodhead said that while administrators and campus police investigate who displayed the noose and why, it is up to each individual to reject racism. '
article_snippet.sent: One person put up that noose, but this is the multitude of people who got together to say that's not the Duke we want,' One person told a crowd of several thousand. '