Two UNC-related items in the
news.
First, over at Minding the
Campus, I have a piece
on the continuing controversies at UNC, where the Afro-American Studies Department
hosted a variety of no-show classes for student-athletes (and some
non-athletes).
And today’s Chronicle brings
news that the book penned by anti-lacrosse extremist Tim Tyson—who, among
other things, suggested
that it might have been “illegal” for the lacrosse players to have insisted on
having attorneys before they spoke to Durham Police officers—was chosen as the
required pre-orientation reading by the University of North Carolina (and, for
good measure, by the Duke Divinity School). A reminder that in the academy,
extremism of a certain type never causes a loss of credibility.
Tyson also revealed that he’s
working on a new project, focused on the murder of Emmett Till. Unlike his
colleague in the anti-lacrosse crusade, William Chafe, who infamously
used the Till case to contextualize the lacrosse case, at least Tyson got
the year of Till’s murder correct.
3 comments:
Is Tyson a Communist?
It's amazing that every year the Atlanta Journal-Constitution runs an article on Emmitt Till; since our African-American president, who campaigned on the issue of bringing Americans closer together but has forced us to be more divisive, i.e., the Professor Gates matter, "If I had a son he'd be just like Travon Martin..", etc., the recounting of the Emmitt Till murder is just to remind blacks who their enemies are.
Big Al
A bit off-topic, but a former New York Times journalist has written a play apparently about the media response to the lacrosse rape hoax.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-bernard-weinraub-play-above-the-fold-20140129,0,855783.story#axzz2ruL8xLYE
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