tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post2791367643492087340..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Checking in with the Groupkcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-46759784169561170212010-02-04T05:29:29.947-05:002010-02-04T05:29:29.947-05:00Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take...Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action<br />Influence can be defined as the power exerted over the minds and behavior of others. A power that can affect, persuade and cause changes to someone or something. In order to influence people, you first need to discover what is already influencing them. What makes them tick? What do they care about? We need some leverage to work with when we’re trying to change how people think and behave.<br /><br />www.onlineuniversalwork.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-90711707242334592262009-07-19T17:01:18.229-04:002009-07-19T17:01:18.229-04:00The indefatigable "MOO Gregory" has done...The indefatigable "MOO Gregory" has done it again.<br /><br />Deserving of yet another AL Pacino summation award!<br /><br />Check it out on <a href="http://viewfromwilmington.blogspot.com/2009/07/john-in-carolinas-post-kc-johnson-now.html" rel="nofollow">Chris' blog</a>.Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-80778932563146450792009-07-19T10:32:48.774-04:002009-07-19T10:32:48.774-04:00Bob Ashley, do everyone a favor and just stuff it ...Bob Ashley, do everyone a favor and just stuff it inside a dark place....left to your imagination.<br /><br />You, your cowardice, your lack of professionalism, your oozing, insipid, and vaporized existence are a huge reason why so many think of the Lacrosse Hoax the moment the word "Durham" is mentioned.<br /><br />You OWN that fiasco.<br /><br />Now go cheerlead with mousy-boy Reyn over at the Visitors' Bureau!<br /><br />****************************<br /><br /><br /><i>Durham: A playful place to be<br /><br /> Jul 19, 2009<br /><br />Maybe it was the mellowing effect of contemplating this column while sitting on a sunny porch in a South Carolina coastal community.<br />Whatever the reason, the comment that cropped up on our Web site one day last week struck me as being especially cynical -- and this reaction from someone who has spent better than four decades in what is seen as an especially cynical profession.<br /><br />The subject was a fairly routine story in The Herald-Sun on Wednesday.<br /><br />"Durham is named a 'Playful City USA,'" the headline said. And the story noted in its first paragraph or two:<br /><br />"Durham is one of five communities in North Carolina and 93 nationally to be named a 'Playful City USA.'"<br /><br />The comment someone posted even before most folks had started their morning commute to work? Here it is:<br /><br />"Playful?"<br /><br />"Yeah, and Durham's favorite game is: Duck Duck Cover."<br /><br />OK, the "playful city" moniker, while welcome, may seem a little trivial.<br /><br />But to seize the opportunity to contrast it with an image of a city, as a nearby newspaper once characterized it as "in fear" over rampant crime, is a cynical stretch.<br /><br />It also is not an unusual one.<br /><br />Sadly, just as frequently they are predictable rantings of oft-repeated premises attached with metronomic repetition to the same story lines. Any mention of the wrongful accusations against Duke lacrosse players, for example, is like pulling a string for a handful of posters who will immediately weigh in with the same recitation of wrongs.<br /><br />Crime stories often bring out the repetitive, often racially tinged commentary.<br /><br />And, like the "playful city" article, notes about the city's commendations as a great place to live and work bring out comments, often from the same handful of posters, who can't wait to point out what they see as the irony.<br /><br />Sometimes the prompt is not the immediate announcement of an accolade, just its recent existence, as in this comment posted after a Durham police officer was shot and wounded investigating a break-in call at a South Square area apartment.<br /><br />"Great place to live??????" the poster rhetorically titled the comment, and you knew from the number of question-marks what the answer was going to be. The comment continued,<br /><br />"Durham............being recognized as a great place to work and live..........as long as you don't get assaulted, battered, or shot. Folks, this incident involved a police officer, armed and doing his job to serve the community. What chance does the average joe on the street have against this level of violence???<br /><br />"Whoever is laying these accolades on Durham for its quality of life obviously has not visited there or done much investigation into the goings on around town. Durham is what it is........all the nice words etc will not change that."<br /><br />Crime, of course, happens everywhere. But to characterize Durham as a crime-ridden city where residents should live in terror and arm themselves for protection is just as much a disconnect from reality as it would be to conclude there are no problems.<br /><br />One frequent scathing Web commenter mentioned that he was glad he didn't live here.<br /><br />Probably it is best he or she doesn't. But many folks choose quite willingly every year to move here or to continue to make this their home.<br /><br />For the most part, we're neither oblivious to the city's real problems or the challenge of addressing them, nor overcome by the cynicism of the occasional bitter Web poster.<br /><br />Bob Ashley is editor of The Herald-Sun</i>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-39975036991614773302009-07-18T15:06:04.573-04:002009-07-18T15:06:04.573-04:00Hypocrisy so thick you can cut it with a lacrosse ...Hypocrisy so thick you can cut it with a lacrosse stick. Was that actually written for public consumption?<br /><br />It would appear the type of behavior we've seen from a few bloggers recently is quite common among people who feud nonstop for attention.<br />Is this about the hoax or a bunch of internet crybabies?Black Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17239361243718079740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-78406140939161360282009-07-18T07:52:16.072-04:002009-07-18T07:52:16.072-04:00thanks for the useful postthanks for the useful postdochttp://legal-doc.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-65816354494372109912009-07-18T06:51:05.469-04:002009-07-18T06:51:05.469-04:00One of the zaniest ideas floated during the Lacros...One of the zaniest ideas floated during the Lacrosse Hoax and Nifong's election bid was to back Lewis Cheek for DA---even though he would not have taken the job!<br /><br />Along with his myriad personal problems.<br /><br /><i>OID</i> = Only in Durham<br /><br />**********************************<br /><br /><br />N&O:<br /><br /><i>Ex-council member back<br /><br />Former Durham City Council member Lewis Cheek was back in City Hall on Tuesday night, along with his new professional associate, attorney Patrick Byker.<br />Cheek recently went to work for the same law firm as Byker, K&L Gates. They were on hand for the Durham Planning Commission hearing on a rezoning case near the Research Triangle Park.<br />Cheek left the City Council in 2003, then won a seat on the county Board of Commissioners in 2004. After an unsuccessful try at unseating beleaguered District Attorney Mike Nifong in 2006, he opted not to run for re-election as a commissioner.<br />One of his last acts as a commissioner, though, was to vote against a county-financed survey of the disputed Jordan Lake critical boundary -- a vote favorable to the Southern Durham Development company, whose plan for a subdivision on N.C. 751 hinges on just where that boundary is.<br />Now, Southern Durham Development is suing Durham County over that boundary. Its legal counsel? Cheek's new employer, K&L Gates.<br /><br />Compiled by staff writers David Bracken, Jim Wise and Jesse James DeConto</i>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-86171952871510423442009-07-17T21:04:16.814-04:002009-07-17T21:04:16.814-04:00Recipe for "Fluff Pop Culture Article":
...Recipe for "Fluff Pop Culture Article":<br /><br />1. Take one googled old quote;<br />2. Mix in the new cool pop culture topic (i.e. "sexting");<br />3. Sprinkle in no original thought;<br />4. Serve cold with no suggestions to eradicate the problem. <br /><br />Serves: No one. <br /><br />********************<br /><br />My advice would be: Don't put anything on facebook or myspace, in your garbage unshredded or let people take pictures of you that you don't want your Mom to see with you in the room. MOO! GregoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-67196727449624929702009-07-17T16:38:17.888-04:002009-07-17T16:38:17.888-04:00Debrah, thanks for your 2:28 link.
That was one r...Debrah, thanks for your 2:28 link.<br /><br />That was one revealing page, although I had to keep my shovel handy while reading.<br /><br />Too much bickering and too much self-interest for my stomach.<br /><br />Who do these people think they are? Do they think this case has been about them?Panaceahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02950768996271184024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-41861977793244172352009-07-17T10:22:34.190-04:002009-07-17T10:22:34.190-04:00So Duke first debases the value of its english dep...<i>So Duke first debases the value of its english department by a flood of fashionable but unqualified hires. Then it puts Holloway on its laws school faculty?</i><br><br />It gets worse - she teaches legal ethics.Carmine Burtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-17231620588108455322009-07-17T07:53:25.995-04:002009-07-17T07:53:25.995-04:00Anonymous 7/16/09 8:07 PM asked:
Holloway is on t...Anonymous 7/16/09 8:07 PM asked:<br /><br />Holloway is on the faculty of the law school and she's not a lawyer? <br />Do other law schools have such "I play one on TV" appointments? <br /><br />The legendary deconstructionist Stanley Fish was Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University from 1986 to 1998. He does not have a law degree. Presently, he is Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University, teaching in the FIU College of Law.<br /><br />I suspect the 'contribution' is that since law is based on words, the deconstruction of words will give entirely new meanings to laws. We certainly have seen this in the interpretation of laws by our courts.<br /><br />It all depends on what your definition of "is" is.a Nice NJ Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05776159775859690321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-40163911235907009022009-07-17T07:47:08.311-04:002009-07-17T07:47:08.311-04:00H-S letter:
Tough questions about Duke money
Wit...H-S letter:<br /><br /><i>Tough questions about Duke money<br /><br />With nearly 300 Duke University employees accepting early retirement, it's time for hard questions: The latest tally shows the university had 6,208 employees earning more than $50,000 a year, a total that excludes the separate Duke Health Corporation with its hospitals and patient care.<br /><br />How many higher paid employees were offered retirement? (My source says none). We cannot sit silently during this financial meltdown while Duke balances its budget on the backs of the poor alone.<br /><br />While early retirements do shrink the current expense budget, they merely transfer the burden to the retirement system, which lost 24.5 percent of its assets in the past 12 months. Can the pension plan swallow hundreds of people getting checks far larger than anticipated, much earlier in their lives than anticipated? Duke has offered no assurance.<br /><br />Here's my menu to cut the lard: 1) Settle the lacrosse lawsuits. Quit the legal wiggling. One defense law firm billed Duke for $1,966,288 in the last year. Overall legal expenses at Duke were $17 million, four times the cost of three years earlier.<br /><br />2). Cut the administrative battalions. There are 16 academic deans of Trinity College, who largely duplicate 10 deans of the Arts and Sciences, who largely duplicate 10 vice provosts. Let's reduce vice presidents and vice chancellors to the number President Richard Brodhead found when he arrived five years ago.<br /><br />3) Curtail lavish fringe benefits, from a subsidized country club to interest-free 40-year mortgages. One officer -- retired since 1997 -- is still paying just $4,000 a year on his home loan.<br /><br /><br />ED RICKARDS<br />New York City<br />July 17, 2009</i>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-34002441204866124202009-07-17T07:44:24.183-04:002009-07-17T07:44:24.183-04:00Convicted felon with two jail stays eyes City Coun...<i>Convicted felon with two jail stays eyes City Council race<br /><br />By Ray Gronberg : The Herald-Sun<br />Jul 17, 2009 <br /><br />DURHAM -- A convicted felon whose record includes several fraud-related charges, a couple counts of obstructing justice and two jail stints intends to run for the City Council Ward 2 seat now held by incumbent Howard Clement. <br /><br />Darius M. Little, 29, will file today before the county Board of Elections' noon deadline. <br /><br />Little says his criminal record is common knowledge among community leaders, and hasn't kept him from marshaling support amongst some of the city's major church congregations. <br /><br />"If I'm going to do something like this, obviously I know that's going to come out," he said Thursday, referring to his run-ins with the law. "That shows you I don't care. And I don't care because this is greater than me."<br /><br />Court and N.C. Department of Correction records detail Little's transgressions. <br /><br />They began early this decade and led in April 2004 to his conviction in Orange County on five counts of misdemeanor larceny and three counts of floating worthless checks. <br /><br />The larceny counts each started as felony charges of obtaining property by false pretenses, and were pleaded down to the lesser offense, records in Orange County show. Little received probation and community service. <br /><br />But he got in trouble again in October 2005 when Chapel Hill police charged him with obtaining property by false pretenses and felony obstruction of justice. He pleaded guilty to both counts the following spring, in a plea bargain that included prosecutors' voluntary dismissal of two other false-pretenses counts. <br /><br />Little admitted -- both in a Thursday interview and in 2006 letters to Orange-Chatham Superior Court Judge Carl Fox -- that he'd been kiting worthless checks to cover his living expenses while he was attending classes at the Triangle's major universities. <br /><br />The obstruction of justice charge came about because Little called a landlord he'd floated a check to and, impersonating a magistrate, falsely told her that a court date stemming from that offense had been changed. He admitted to Fox he'd done that to buy himself more time. <br /><br />Fox required Little to pay the landlord nearly $8,014 in restitution, and gave him a jail sentence that kept him behind bars for nearly five months in mid-2006. <br /><br />While that case was still pending, events transpired in Durham that led to new charges against Little -- a felony worthless check violation and another count of obtaining property by false pretenses -- in September of 2006. <br /><br />The worthless-check count involved $4,500, while the false-pretense charge was for Little's falsely telling a would-be roommate from Gastonia that he'd lined up an apartment, thus convincing him to hand over $900 for a security deposit and the first month's rent. <br /><br />Another plea deal followed in late 2007, with Durham Superior Court Judge Ronald Stephens giving Little probation and credit for time served. <br /><br />The sentence recognized that Little had landed back in jail late in 2006 after his probation on the Orange County charges was revoked. He stayed there for 9¬Î© months. <br /><br />Little said he violated Fox's order to avoid contacting his former landlord. He says he called the woman to apologize and she in retribution reported him. <br /><br />Little still faces two other charges, counts of harassing phone calls and cyberstalking a former girlfriend lodged against him in 2006. <br /><br />The former girlfriend -- whom Little had described in letters to Fox as his fiancâ??©e -- said he contacted her repeatedly in late September of 2006 after he got out of jail. She said the relationship by that time was over. <br /><br />The warrants she swore out went unserved by Chapel Hill police, but Durham County sheriff's deputies acted on them this past September. Little has a court date scheduled for July 24 and says he thinks the charges will be dismissed. <br /><br />Court records also show a 2006 conviction on a misdemeanor obstruction of justice in Wake County and a 2005 worthless-check conviction in Beaufort County.</i><br /><br />~snip~Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-83024442737309865162009-07-16T20:07:27.523-04:002009-07-16T20:07:27.523-04:00I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I should...I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I should expect this silliness by now I suppose. But at the risk of being accused of small minded credentialism, I became stuck right away on one issue: Holloway is on the faculty of the law school and she's not a lawyer? <br /><br />Do other law schools have such "I play one on TV" appointments? I know of course that many law schools have lecturers who are forensic accountants or specialists in criminal procedure. But this woman has no training pertinent to any lawyer. <br /><br />So Duke first debases the value of its english department by a flood of fashionable but unqualified hires. Then it puts Holloway on its laws school faculty? <br /><br />Duke seems to believe its credibility can be spent like water and will neevr be diluted or expended. I can assure you, however, that I will never view one of its newer graduates as I did before.<br /><br />This is just appalling!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1398895372679958502009-07-16T14:28:32.637-04:002009-07-16T14:28:32.637-04:00I came upon this offering from Gaynor.
Apparently...I came upon <a href="http://www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=gaynorm&date=071018" rel="nofollow">this offering</a> from Gaynor.<br /><br />Apparently, this is not the first time the commenter who goes by the pseudonym "Joan Foster" pushed her weight around while blogging.<br /><br />I never followed Liestoppers closely enough to have remembered this dust-up among the natives there.<br /><br />Why do "secrets and sources need to be protected" by some, but KC should be held to a different standard......<br /><br />.......even when his work on this case has been exponentially more pivotal than the work of his now-detractors?<br /><br /><br /><b>"First, 'Joan' has poetic license!<br /><br />"Second, 'take my word for it' is a frustrating, but not illegitimate, answer. Sometimes secrets and sources need to be protected.<br /><br />"I found my NC sources reliable, yet unwilling to identify themselves (like lots of LieStoppers).</b>.....<br /><br /><br />Telling, eh?Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-14292344978453655192009-07-16T12:13:23.111-04:002009-07-16T12:13:23.111-04:00Paula McClain and Cathy Davidson have joined Eduar...Paula McClain and Cathy Davidson have joined Eduardo Bonilla-Silva in the chorus of 88ers who sound like the Glass Manufacturers' Association at the advent of plastic: "You still need us. You really, really need us!"<br /><br />McClain, like Davidson and Bonilla-Silva, went on the offensive to proclaim that race relations and racism won't be significantly impacted by the Obama presidency. True to form, they don't wait to conduct scientifically modeled research on the subject or allow others the time to do so; for that matter, they don't even wait to allow this fact sufficient time to sink into the national fabric and have any effect.<br /><br />I do agree with McClain on one thing, and that is the term "structural inequalities." However, we diverge on the definition of the term and its application to alleged racial injustice. She believes it applies to systems in America charged with the disbursement of health care, prison sentences, education and jobs. In this context, I think the better definition of "structural inequalities" should refer to the difference between the percentage of single-parent black families versus single-parent white and asian families. Who is right? I don't know because PC considerations have precluded scholars from actually studying the problem or arriving at non-PC conclusions. MOO! GregoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-35794660123636568972009-07-16T11:03:47.473-04:002009-07-16T11:03:47.473-04:00Grafton: "(Brodhead, Wells, and **Zimmerman**...Grafton: "(Brodhead, Wells, and **Zimmerman**)" - Zimmerman doesn't appear to be in the set of 25... did you mean someone else?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-70590060403644798902009-07-16T07:09:57.743-04:002009-07-16T07:09:57.743-04:00No word on how Duke ranks with regard to SANE nurs...No word on how Duke ranks with regard to SANE nurses.<br /><br />Ha!<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>For 20th year, Duke is among top 10 U.S. hospitals in magazine's rankings<br /><br />: Duke Medicine News Service<br />The Herald-Sun<br />Jul 16, 2009 <br /><br />DURHAM -- Duke University Hospital has continued a tradition that began 20 years ago by again being named one of the top 10 best hospitals in America in U.S. News & World Report's annual best hospital edition. <br /><br />Duke was 10th overall, and ranks among the top 10 in seven of the 16 specialties measured. Duke was tied for eighth last year. <br /><br />Duke is the only hospital in North Carolina and the Southeast ranked among the top 10 nationally. <br /><br />"We're pleased that the Duke Heart and Cancer Centers continue to be ranked as the best such treatment and research programs in the Southeastern United States," says Victor Dzau, Duke's chancellor for Health Affairs and CEO of Duke University Health System. "Our high national scores in heavily cancer-related specialties reflects the fact that our specialists and sub-specialists in various cancers are focused entirely, every day, on nothing but providing state-of-the-art cancer care and studying novel clinical and scientific strategies for more effectively dealing with various cancers," <br /><br />Duke's rankings in individual specialties include: <br /><br />* Gynecology, 4 <br /><br />* Geriatrics, 5 <br /><br />* Orthopaedics, 6 <br /><br />* Respiratory Disease/Pulmonary, 6 <br /><br />* Urology, 6 <br /><br />* Ophthalmology, 7 <br /><br />* Heart Heart Surgery, 8 <br /><br />* Cancer, 9 <br /><br />* Kidney Disorders, 11 <br /><br />* Psychiatry, 12 <br /><br />* Digestive Disorders, 17 <br /><br />* Neurology and Neurosurgery, 18 <br /><br />* Diabetes Endocrine Disorders, 22 <br /><br />The U.S. News World Report's rankings appear in today's issue and are available online at health.usnews.com/besthospitals. <br /><br />The medical centers named as the part of the honor roll this year had to demonstrate a breadth of excellence by achieving a high ranking in no fewer than six of the 16 specialties, according to the magazine. <br /><br />The top 10 hospitals in the U.S. News World Report's rankings are, respectively: Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, UCLA Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, New York-Presbyterian University Hospital, University of California-San Francisco, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Duke.</i>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-88296479461575134672009-07-16T00:15:25.080-04:002009-07-16T00:15:25.080-04:00RL alum '75 :: 7/14/09 said.
...
...it never r...RL alum '75 :: 7/14/09 said.<br />...<br />...it never really occurred to me that perhaps many of the folks who push those subject areas (and insist that everybody have some) wouldn't be able to compete if they were required to take a representative sample of the courses I was drawn to like differential equations, physical chemistry and molecular biology.<br /><br />and...<br /><br />The survey "science" courses offered now are suspect in my mind (biology for non science majors comes to mind).<br />::<br />Isn't this the source of much of their power within the academy since most professors and most of their students have never taken any of the courses you were drawn to?<br /><br />And most of these students are told that the real 'Quant' students and graduates think survey 'science' courses are a joke.<br /><br />What a perfect opportunity for the G88 to rush into that vacuum and offer comfort and guidance to those who are not appreciated and not wanted by the 'Gear Heads'...both current students and graduates.<br /><br />Especially if their census is moving towards fifty one percent of the entire undergraduate enrollment.<br /><br />And how many alums are pouring money into Duke in support of students who are not drawn to science and math because of the discrimination they felt from the 'math heads' while they were attending Duke many years ago?<br />::<br />GPGary Packwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177986821224068759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-57666863220410571202009-07-15T23:49:57.765-04:002009-07-15T23:49:57.765-04:00Employees jump at Duke offer
Duke is trying to tr...<a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/durham/durham/story/1607722.html" rel="nofollow">Employees jump at Duke offer</a><br /><br />Duke is trying to trim its payroll, but what's hilarious is the comment below the article about the Gang of 88.<br /><br />It seems that anything written about Duke University brings up the lacrosse case.<br /><br />Ha!Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-22668866465610681612009-07-15T19:25:39.061-04:002009-07-15T19:25:39.061-04:00The Duke Magazine published its 25th Anniversary s...The Duke Magazine published its 25th Anniversary self-congratulatory edition. This is the magazine which allowed anyone paying attention to know that Duke was becoming a paragon of PC a decade ago (with Prez Nan). As part of the 25 year edition, the editor grabbed 25 profs, administrators, and others (e.g., Coach K) and told them to write something. The pictures, I believe, were meant to be "whimsical" so I can't fault anyone for that. Most wrote about the change in the past 25 years, but the articles authored by the 88's were generally un-readable.<br /><br />The problem I had was of the 25, 5 were Group 88 profs (McClain, Holloway, Lentricchia, Davidson, and Neal) and 3 more were publically simpatico (Brodhead, Wells, and Zimmerman). That's a huge percentage and reflective of the attitude on campus, or at least at the Alumni magazine. I have to wash my hands after reading to remove the stench.<br /><br />Grafton '68Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-11507461684359729292009-07-15T15:00:32.513-04:002009-07-15T15:00:32.513-04:00If anyone is interested Brodhead is now accepting ...If anyone is interested Brodhead is now accepting questions via <a href="http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes" rel="nofollow">this</a> website for an interview that university publication Working@Duke will run with him in September. <br /><br />So fire away. Make sure you scroll down to the headlines At Duke: Ask the boss a question.Panaceahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02950768996271184024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-87444743491546900462009-07-15T14:49:59.565-04:002009-07-15T14:49:59.565-04:00I have no problem with the privacy concerns expres...I have no problem with the privacy concerns expressed in the article -- although, as has been pointed out, there is nothing new or shameful in having your fingerprints collected, as this is a prerequisite for many honorable professions, including (no jokes for now please!) lawyers and armed services.<br /><br />Not that every lawyer and soldier is honorable! -- my point is just that having your fingerprints taken is not necessarily a mark of shame, and certainly is not legit cause for screaming and whining where such is requested (for example) for welfare recipients. It's a fairly accepted standard for identification. Anyone taking the SATs must give a fingerprint! <br /><br />Whether or not I agree with this philosophically, is another matter, but is one in which Karla demonstrates no consistent or thoughtful analysis.<br /><br />I do wish we could live in a country where our DNA is nobody's business (or especially, not the business of the criminals and thieves of the insurance industry).<br /><br />However, I wish even more that we could live in a country free of the hypocrisy of Karla Holloway and her like. In her latest article, she was BEGGING to get slammed in exactly the way that KC has delivered. <br /><br />Obviously she does not care, but she should, because the day MIGHT come when she may need to pass muster among evaluators who are neither stupid, nor liars, nor hypocrites like herself.<br /><br />Either you believe in privacy, or you don't. But please don't bullsh*t us about how privacy rights exist EXCEPT for white guys who are falsely accused of raping a lying black mental case. <br /><br />As a "law professor," Karla must know that legal principals must be maintained as just that -- matters of PRINCIPAL, and not as a case-by-case litmus test of race/class/gender, whether the bias is hers or anyone else's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-27250055941947807762009-07-15T13:08:48.418-04:002009-07-15T13:08:48.418-04:00Everything is getting "playful" in Durha...Everything is getting "playful" in Durham these days.<br /><br />We see that the Gang of 88 have become much more playful over at Duke.<br /><br />And now Durham has been named a playful city.<br /><br />But the first commenter I included under this report disagrees.<br /><br />LIS!<br />************************<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>Durham is named a 'Playful City USA'<br /><br />By Matthew E. Milliken : The Herald-Sun<br />Jul 15, 2009 <br /><br />DURHAM -- Durham is one of five communities in North Carolina and 93 nationally to be named a "Playful City USA." <br /><br />The city is making its first appearance on Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit KaBOOM!'s list of recreation-friendly communities thanks to the renovation of Old North Durham Park. The Central Park School for Children shared costs for revitalizing the park with the Durham Open Space and Trails Commission. <br /><br />"We are extremely pleased," said Rhonda Parker, director of the city of Durham Parks and Recreation Department, which applied for the recognition. "We're excited about it. It just proves that good things are happening in Durham, and we make this commitment because we want the citizens of Durham to play more."<br /><br />That last phrase, "play more," is the departmental motto. <br /><br />Parker said that Old North Durham Park was not the city's first venture into recreational facilities created with community help. Play spaces have been built in Birchwood and Marine Road in recent years. <br /><br />Parker called such collaborations win-win situations. <br /><br />"The community has an investment in that playground and helps us to promote it, helps us to build and design it and also helps to maintain it as far as people taking care of it," the department head said. <br /><br />Durham made KaBOOM!'s list along with Greensboro, Greenville, Sanford and Creedmoor. Creedmoor is the state's only repeat honoree, having been a Playful City USA community for three straight years. <br /><br />In all, the organization's list had 39 first-time honorees, 32 two-time honorees and 22 three-time honorees. <br /><br />KaBOOM! singled out six communities in three categories. Indianapolis and Dothan, Alaska, were honored for their number of usable, open play spaces. San Francisco and Las Cruces, N.M., were honored for high-quality recreation facilities. New York and Ankeny, Iowa, were honored for easily accessible play spaces.<br /><br />*************************** <br /><br /> <br />Playful?<br /><br />Submitted by mebgirl1984 on 07/15/2009 @ 07:34 AM<br /><br />Yeah, and Durham's favorite game is: Duck Duck Cover</i>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-15693776338916390882009-07-15T10:34:30.576-04:002009-07-15T10:34:30.576-04:00Although I do not have a thorough understanding of...Although I do not have a thorough understanding of DNA technology, it is my understanding that the DNA records that are used for identification are not at all the ones that have information about diseases, etc. It is sort of looking at your tax return, and taking the sums of the digits on lines 5,11,17, etc. Given enough lines, nobody else would have the same totals, but it tells nothing about you.<br /><br />Bill AlexanderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-88816256687950992852009-07-15T08:21:32.951-04:002009-07-15T08:21:32.951-04:00I agree that DNA samples for screening such as cri...I agree that DNA samples for screening such as criminal checks provides a valuable societal benefit. I applaud that the presence of such an evidence sifting tool may serve as a deterrent, as well as solver, of crime. My view is that the DNA testing/screening should continue and perhaps even be expanded.<br /><br />Nonetheless, there is the potential for abuse in DNA testing and information handling that is not there in fingerprinting, and that danger or risk should not be denied. Instead, the risk should be acknowledged and managed.jim2noreply@blogger.com