Seligmann Starts Over at Brown
Reade Seligmann, of Duke lacrosse fame, is now Brown '09.
Reade Seligmann '09 is sitting in a Starbucks a block away from Times Square, talking about some of the students he knows at Brown, when a woman with black hair, heavy, dark-blue eye shadow and an "I Love NY" shirt approaches the table.
"Would you care for a psychic reading?" she asks.
Seligmann looks up at her, unfazed, and quickly smiles.
"No thanks," he says. Then he adds: "I think I know where I'm going."
After the jump: another excerpt from the Brown Daily Herald's 2,800 word paean to Seligmann.
[Seligmann] plans to study history at Brown and is considering adding economics as a second concentration. His internship at Bear Stearns has gotten him more interested in business, he says, but his heart, especially after the past year, is in law.
Seligmann knows some resent the three accused players for having the resources to battle the legal system. He is unapologetic about it, but after the Duke case, he realizes more than ever how economics plays a role in law.
Seligmann says he and the two accused teammates plan to one day work with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exonerating prisoners through DNA testing, or something similar.
His goal, he says, is to work toward making sure that something like the Duke case never happens again, that innocent people never have to go through what he went through, regardless of their financial situation.
At Brown, he promises to start a club related to the Innocence Project, and to devote much of his time to its cause.
(Exonerated Duke suspect awaits fresh start at Brown)
Good luck, Reade. Just don't let the hippies at Brown dissuade you from a career in I-banking.
--JACOB SAVAGE
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September 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Bear Stearns? That’s where a Duke BMOC lax god ends up? Bear “Jimmy Cayne can’t trade for shit” Stearns? Your not-so-favorite back office outsourcer? The people who thought throwing billions into fund A while they sold off fund B (holding much the same as fund A) was a brilliant idea?
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SELL 5000 Duke at 10! MORE SIZE! At 9.81, done on 100! Done: 200 @ 9.69! Strong support at zero.
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Why can’t he shut up and lay low for the next two years — instead of continuing to keep himself in the public eye? What? Is he some kind of media whore?
September 5th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
if he wore an “i love ny” t-shirt, why didn’t he come to columbia . . .
wait we don’t have d1 lax (even if we did, we’d still suck)
sigh
September 5th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
he didnt wear the i love ny shirt, the fortune teller did. good job.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
So this kid who can’t read gets in and I don’t?
September 5th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
this is far worse than the us news rankings. brown really swallows. can we trade them for mit, jhu, or g-town? brown = rutgers of rhode island.
September 5th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
What a douche. There’s NO way he’s actually ever going to work at the Innocence Project. He’ll go to some second-tier law school like UVa and be a corporate hack to a second-tier law firm in DC or NYC.
The guy’s innocent, but he doesn’t deserve a fawning piece like this. He’s really good at PR though; all that BS about helping people really plays well at Brown (I am sure if he was still at Duke, he would be gung-ho for Bear “We aren’t bailing out our hedge fund, we see a strategic opportunity” Stearns.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Stanford 2009: Very true. He’s changed his PR, but I doubt he has changed his value system. (I don’t believe people can change values in less than five years.) Seligman is like feces: he leaves a nasty stain on all who touch him.
One minor point: It was Goldman that claimed to be making a strategic investment. Bear just said they were making a capital infusion to shore up their less-leveraged fund. Both were stupid moves.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Dear “Stanford 2009″ (because we don’t know what “‘09″ means), you’re a dork. Since when did UVa become a “2nd tier law school”? Clearly you haven’t spent time in D.C., where pretty much everyone received law degrees from Yale, Harvard (puke), or UVa. Secondly, wasn’t this already reported on this blog? Thirdly, I WANT THE NEW iPOD!!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Are you guys still bitter because that girl you had a crush on in high school went out with a lacrosse player instead of you (though, to be fair, you never actually had the courage to ask her out). Seriously, what did this guy do to you? How can you claim to know what his values are, let alone judge them? All you know about Reade Seligmann is that he is a good lacrosse player and he was falsely accused of a horrific crime he did not commit. Why so much hate? You idiots give credence to the Ivy League’s reputation as a bunch of stuck-up “holier than thou” elitest bastards. Let him get on with his life in peace - he deserves that much at least from society.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Let him get on in peace? He’s the one who keeps stepping into the limelight. Negativity? Sure: Bear Stearns BLOWS; it’s so infintely crappier than even Lehman or Merrill. His attitude is grade-A prick; the oppressed stance was nauseating; and, the actions he admitted to were nothing I’d consider exemplary. He, with others, hired *escorts* for their party.
As for lacrosse players, I’ve got nothing against them. What I am repulsed by is how everyone at Duke handled the situation. Nobody involved acted decently. My “high horse” is what the civilzed world refers to as “standards”. Maybe you can be like Prometheus and bring those to Durham.
September 8th, 2007 at 7:13 am
i’m really happy that he’s gotten a new start. he deserves nothing less. although he could have gone to, you know, a good ivy school, but whatevs.
September 9th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Comments to posts like this one on Ivy Gate are the reason the country hates Ivy League students. It’s a rare sight to see an IG post without the comments section devolving into spoiled little children bickering about what school/I-Bank/grad school is better. Did you guys fight about who’s dad made more money or drove a better car as a kid, too?
While most at top tier schools are smart, there are very intelligent people that go to shitty schools, and idiots who get into good schools. Having a certain school name before your BS/BA/JD/MD/MBA doesn’t make you a better person. Get over yourselves.
September 9th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
amen cornell. you hit the nail on the head
September 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Lynah Faithful - What I’m about to say is completely irrelevant to the topic of discussion, but you’re completely misinformed if you think Virginia is a second tier law school. Unless, of course, you think the law schools ranked 5-10 are second tier.
Do your homework before you post something retarded. Thanks.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Whoops. The above was directed to Stanford 2009.