Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Yale & Witt

Readers of the New York Times might have noticed that the paper has gone after another athlete that fits the negative race/class/gender stereotype, Yale quarterback Patrick Witt. Witt, a Rhodes Scholar finalist, was the subject of an "informal complaint" through Yale's sexual assault/harassment program, which lists an undergraduate male causing "worry" to a female as a legitimate grounds for filing complaints.

I've written three posts at Minding the Campus on the topic, one just after the story broke, the second after Witt had issued his side of the story, and the third looking at the extraordinarily poor response to the case by so-called media critics. The worst of the latter was an article from Poynter, which describes itself as an institution "that exists to ensure that our communities have access to excellent journalism—the kind of journalism that enables us to participate fully and effectively in our democracy." To whom did this institution turn for guidance on how the Times should have handled the case? You guessed it: Wendy Murphy.

13 comments:

skwilli said...

Not Jamie Gorelick?

Anonymous said...

OMG .not her again!

Anonymous said...

Brodhead came from Yale, so it's not surprising that someone in the Yale administration would leak confidential information to ruin Witt's reputation.

Anonymous said...

To the 11:36:

Brodhead had history of throwing people under the bus in a lame and amoral attempt to protect the university, and if that meant throwing innocent people to the wolves, well that is a risk Brodhead was willing to take. Google James Van de Velde, and you can see Brodhead applied lessons learned at Yale to the Duke lacrosse case with the same results, including burying the university in lawsuits.

No one has any idea how Brodahead gets away with it but he not only gets away with it, he flourishes. Says something about the state of academia.

Anonymous said...

How desperate have those with anti-male, anti-athlete and anti-"elitist" agendas become for a story? To keep alive the theory that rape is happening all the time on campuses across America they're down to trumpeting a situation in which no criminal charges were filed, and, even though Yale has the most absurdly favorable and unconstitutional pro-victim burden of proof, no Yale action was taken. All at the expense of some schlub who's probably guilty of unceremoniously dumping a girl and moving away. I don't know that for a fact, that's just a guess, but I would posit it's the best possible guess. (Do you really think Yale would not move forward with a sexual assault claim if they had a shred of credible evidence?). MOO! Gregory

Anonymous said...

Thank you Prof. Johnson for your'e bold accounts of the travesties that are being dealt to young men on campuses around the US.
The False Rape Society, of which i read regularly, speaks highly of you.

Anonymous said...

Professor Johnson,

Thank you for having the intellectual honesty and moral courage to stand up for the falsely accused and men in today's misandrist society. I'm an MRA and a frequent writer of comments at the False Rape Society which is the site that informed me about the great work you have done. Thanks again.

Aharon

Anonymous said...

The theme of this article is, It was not our fault we falsely accused three innocent men of rape.

It is a rehash of an old, blame the victim argument: well, gee, if the Lacrosse players had not hired strippers, we would not have falsely accused them of anything.

Anonymous said...

http://thehayride.com/2012/02/lsu-ad-alleva-deposed-in-duke-lacrosse-suit/

5 yrs later alleva deposed...

Anonymous said...

http://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/020312.pdf

Anonymous said...

Is Poynter a radical feminist anti-capitalist who opposes white supremacy and imperialism, with a central commitment to creating a sustainable human presence on the planet?

Anonymous said...

One should note that the Public Editor (Brisbane) has opined on the Times article in today's (2/5) paper. If anything it is a very weak slap (with a sheet of one-ply toilet paper) at the paper and the reporter. It would seem that the NY Times has learned nothing at all from the Duke case.
cks

Anonymous said...

The description "seemingly intelligent people" I will not use this time.

I say, it is extraordinary the lengths to which intellectual snobs will go to avoid admitting they were wrong.