Report on the game, not the fans.
Via The State:
A Duke University student is accusing a College Insider sports reporter of tweeting a racial comment and attaching a photo of her and her friends without their permission at a Blue Devils men’s basketball game.
College Insider reporter John Stansberry allegedly took a photo of Greta Chen, a Duke first-year student, and her friends at the Dec. 2 game against South Dakota in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The photo was tweeted along with a racial comment, The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper, reported Monday.
Chen and her friends were standing behind Stansberry at the game, according to the Chronicle report, and noticed that he was tweeting about them when they looked over his shoulder.
Chen was standing in the front row of Cameron Indoor Stadium, right behind the reporters, according to a post she made on Facebook. She posted two screenshots of Stanberry’s tweets, who used the Twitter handle @LonelyTailgater.
One tweet reads, “The Asian chick Cameron Crazies behind me are openly swooning over Grayson Allen the way their moms swooned over Cheap Trick.”
The other tweet is a photo of Chen and her friends accompanied by the text, “I haven’t been this scrunched up with Asian chicks since I came out of my Korean mother’s womb.”
Stansberry apparently has since deleted his Twitter account.
Stansberry had media passes to the game on Dec. 2 and two other non-Atlantic Coast Conference games in Cameron this season, said Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public affairs and government relations.
Those credentials are now “revoked, and his employer was informed,” Schoenfeld said, adding that the Duke athletics department acted as soon as it could confirm Stansberry’s identity.[…]
The “Cheap Trick” reference in one of the tweets Chen criticized was an apparent allusion to the late-1970s record “Cheap Trick at Budokan,” a live album documenting the band Cheap Trick’s 1978 concert appearances in Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan judo hall. As mixed and released, the recording includes prominent crowd noise.