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1. I cannot imagine anyone apply...Randon thoughts:<br /><br />1. I cannot imagine anyone applying to Duke (undergraduate) except as a backup. The degree will be (sadly) tainted for years to come. <br /><br />2. This pattern of behavior from the left seems pretty typical to anyone who have spent any time in academia.<br /><br />3. The poor character exhibited by so many in the Duke/Durham community is astonishing.<br /><br />4.Brodhead's most recent letter looks like it was lifted from a Tom Wolfe novel. Unbelievable. Only someone in the highest levels of academia could possibly write something like that with a straight face.<br /><br />5. Finally, the NY Times continues to reach new lows. Remember, this is the paper that had a very sympathetic article about 1960s US terrorists--unfortunately published (just before the attack) on 9/11/01!!. And a paper, that never, ever seems to learn anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-36262321143723205832007-01-08T16:43:00.000-05:002007-01-08T16:43:00.000-05:00Portion of DUKE UNIVERSITY CONFLICT OF INTEREST PO...Portion of DUKE UNIVERSITY CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY FOR DUKE FACULTY:http://www.ors.duke.edu/ors/policies/conflict.html<br /><br />"It is the policy of Duke University that its faculty have an obligation to avoid unacceptable ethical, legal, financial or other conflicts of interest and to ensure that their activities and interests do not conflict with their obligations to the University or its welfare."<br />SO, where is Brodhead's outrage about Curtis' rape of Duke's own rules and policies?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-67875383652502422972007-01-08T14:41:00.000-05:002007-01-08T14:41:00.000-05:00"The Campus Culture Initiative... is an effort at...."The Campus Culture Initiative... is an effort at... "<br /><br /><br />an effort at pandering. <br /><br />Pandering is the what fanned spark in this case. No one can control when a woman like Mangum is going to make this kind of charge, but the fact that Brodhead was blown around by every injudicious extremeist with an agenda they wanted to adavance on the backs of the Duke LAX team's reputation.<br /><br />You would think he would wake up to the fact that this is the worst sort of thing you can do. These people should not be rewarded when it has been exposed that their world view and they though tpocess was so deadly wrong. <br /><br />Are we as a soceity really better off with things in academia the way they are today verses 50 years ago?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-38475645145016116262007-01-08T14:38:00.000-05:002007-01-08T14:38:00.000-05:00The hypocrisy of those who criticise the lacrosse ...The hypocrisy of those who criticise the lacrosse players for hiring strippers is palpable.<br /><br />I would be vastly more impressed if they also criticized and held pot-banging parades against the Duke basketball team and the women's team that also hired strippers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-50628427934986256542007-01-08T14:01:00.000-05:002007-01-08T14:01:00.000-05:00Don't call me Shirley. ;>)Don't call me Shirley. ;>)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-5219198838795575822007-01-08T13:49:00.000-05:002007-01-08T13:49:00.000-05:00gprestonian 12:47pm --
Pres. Brodhead's letter is...gprestonian 12:47pm --<br /><br />Pres. Brodhead's letter is interesting. Two paras from the middle:<br /><br /><i>... During these hard months, some have seemed to imply that if you insist on the students' innocence, then you must not care about the underlying issues. Others have seemed to suggest that if you insist on the underlying issues, then you must not care about fair treatment for the students. <br /><br />But it is essential that we separate the legal case from the larger cultural issues and give each its separate, appropriate response. The Campus Culture Initiative... is an effort to visualize the best community we could make for students to grow and learn in, a community of mutual respect and vibrant mutual engagement... I see this as a chance to build on existing strengths in our educational experience and to press toward higher ambitions: the latest chapter in Duke's long history of self-improvement.</i><br /><br />Um. <br /><br />Sensible idea, <i>separating the legal case from the larger cultural issues and giving each its separate, appropriate response.</i><br /><br />I'd want to be doubleplus sure that my flagship <i>effort to visualize the best community we could make for students to grow and learn in (a community of mutual respect and vibrant mutual engagement)</i> would be properly staffed.<br /><br />It should be easy to appoint people who <i>insist on the underlying issues</i> <b>and</b> have not demonstrated disregard <i>for fair treatment for the students.</i><br /><br />Surely, participation in damaging groupthink exercises like March's "Listening Statement" would disqualify faculty members from leading The Campus Culture Initiative.<br /><br />Surely?AMachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08872008617279528583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-73631293930405463962007-01-08T13:48:00.000-05:002007-01-08T13:48:00.000-05:00Wow.
Just wow. Brodhead ought to be dismissed for...Wow.<br /><br />Just wow. Brodhead ought to be dismissed for that letter alone.<br />"More recently, a group of Duke faculty<br />members (including a number of African American faculty) have been widely<br />attacked in blogs and emails "<br /><br />Why does it matter that they are African American???<br /><br />The meme that is being pushed is that you have to refrain from all criticism of Duke if you love it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-59347896605257752632007-01-08T13:41:00.000-05:002007-01-08T13:41:00.000-05:00KC,
We are all waiting for you to ream Brodhead a ...KC,<br />We are all waiting for you to ream Brodhead a new A**hole after you read his latest letter.<br /><br />Don't let us down, take your time and put the knife in slowly and twist it.<br /><br />KempAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-80910808973668044372007-01-08T12:48:00.000-05:002007-01-08T12:48:00.000-05:00Duke06
No one is claiming that the Duke boys are ...Duke06<br /><br /><b>No one is claiming that the Duke boys are "god or perfect angel",</b> they are normal boys, who are innocent, and have been railroaded by the criminal misconduct of DA Mike Nifong and feminst groups who are trying to spin the victimization of these boys into being a victimization of women by saying that, <i>"yeah! they were falsely accused of rape and their reputations and lives destroyed, but they're not gods or perfect angels!"</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-72245393298044414042007-01-08T12:47:00.000-05:002007-01-08T12:47:00.000-05:00All:
Prof Gustafson posted a letter on LS. No li...<b>All</b>:<br /><br />Prof Gustafson posted a letter on LS. No link, I guess it's an email from Brodhead:<br /><br /><a href="http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=1318"><b>Letter from the President</b></a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-30308905133153365602007-01-08T12:32:00.000-05:002007-01-08T12:32:00.000-05:00Will Shadee be suprised that the Starbucks Manager...Will Shadee be suprised that the Starbucks Manager is not nterested in her Duke degree in AAS/womens studies or her opinions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-15493556036729173172007-01-08T12:05:00.000-05:002007-01-08T12:05:00.000-05:00Sam Hummel's position in his email (2:23am)and th...Sam Hummel's position in his email (2:23am)and the fact that he, even at this point, shows so little self examination of his participation in a lynch mob is frightening. <br /><br />You think that the actions of others were necessary to drag him back from the abyss would have given him pause. <br /><br />His position:<br /> - <i>it wasnt reported in the newspaper for 2 weeks as a rape. He deemed that suspecious. <br /> - he was angry that Duke didnt report it to the university community<br /> - he was "incensed" that people who are involved in a felony investigation contact a lawyer.</i><b> [in fact I think this is the universal advice to everyone- consult a laywer and follow their advice before making statements. ]</b><br /> - <i>"I also felt it was repugnant that the Lacrosse team felt entitled to hire a<br />stripper for a team party... " </i> <b>[appearently a perfectly legal activity]</b><br /> - <i>"The number of instances<br />that a person falsely reports rape is miniscule compared to the number of people who do report it and are not believed..." </i> <b>[I doubt any such statistics exist- it would require perfect knowledge of every case to know if they should be classified as a real rape or a false report. Does one have to go through the Kobi Bryant process to end up in the first catagory?] </b><br />-<i> "Put all that together and, yeah, I was pretty outraged at what was going on. I thought then and I think now that a "Pots & Pans Wake-up Call Against Sexual Assault" was an entirely appropriate way to express that outrage.</i><br /><br /><br />How can he, at this late point, not see that the points he outline fit perfectly well with there being a weak case and that authorities were being circumspect? This thing became a mess because of his aggitation. <br /><br />This sloppy a thought process is an embarrasment to a Computer Science major. And he is still defending it!!<br /><br />If he really thought there was a cover up the correct thing to do would have been to engage with the Duke administration, not muddy soceity with his half baked claims.<br /><br />Sam should quit all of his aggitations activities. Being professionally outraged is hurting soceity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-36076453506574925472007-01-08T12:01:00.000-05:002007-01-08T12:01:00.000-05:00Here are the saved comments on Shadee Malaklou's "...Here are the saved comments on Shadee Malaklou's "editorial". These comments, debunking thoroughly Shadee Malaklou's piece of hateful fluff, have been erased from their own website by Duke Chronicle's Stalinist censors. I realize this may not be the best place to save these comments for public knowledge - if the blog's owner has a better idea, he should feel welcome to use them.<br /><br /><br />Most of the comments on Shadee Malaklou's piece have been saved. Here they are. They are not insulting, anyway, not anymore than Shadee Malaklou has been insulting to other Duke students, AND much better argued. WHY, in Heaven's name, would Duke Chronicle allow Shadee Malaklou to molest the reputation of other Duke students and, in the same time, stop Duke students from responding to her?<br /><br />Censored comments following Shadee Malaklou's "editorial":<br /><br />Huck<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 5:37 AM EST <br />With opinion pieces like this one, showing clearly the inherent tensions and prejudices at Duke, I doubt the dwindling application numbers will recover. <br /><br /><br /><br />locomotive Breath<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 6:38 AM EST <br />This entire article can be summarized thusly: "I don't care if they're innocent of the charges - I still hate them and wish the charges were true." <br /><br /><br /><br />Linda<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 12:45 PM EST <br />Originally posted by <br />locomotive Breath<br />This entire article can be summarized thusly: "I don't care if they're innocent of the charges - I still hate them and wish the charges were true." <br /><br />You hit the nail on the head with that one. <br /><br /><br /><br />Mike Tryon<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 6:56 AM EST <br />One doesn't know. Maybe, to future employers, former Duke students will forever be associated with positive images of standing up against a Durham County lynch mob. <br /><br /><br /><br />DM<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 8:03 AM EST <br />What a load of garbage. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />MCF<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 10:24 AM EST <br />I don't imagine for a minute my comments will influence you, Shadee, because it seems so clear that you are locked into your own narrow perspective no matter what. And we agree about one or two things--that this case has done a lot of damage to Duke's reputation, and that many Duke students (my own daughter, a junior, among them) are likely to endure some awkward moments in job interviews. <br /><br />But after that we part company. Your implication that this damage has been caused mostly by the lacrosse team and its failure to be "loyal" to Duke* overlooks the fact that the media's rush to campus [which, ultimately, caused the damange] was provoked as much or more by the irresponsible actions of the DA and the precipitous actions of faculty, students, and community members who conducted protests presuming the guilt of the entire lacrosse team and commented publicly about the case and their opinions on the sorry state of Duke's culture. Where was Houston Baker's loyalty to Duke, to offer just one example? [Of course, we now know it was nonexistent, as he had already arranged to leave for Vanderbilt.] <br /><br />Did the lacrosse team members take for granted their extreme good fortune in being at Duke? Probably. <br />But I would argue that the same is likely true of most students and, apparently, many faculty members as well. And your "disgust" at fellow students' loyalty to the accused students (despite the fact that you yourself admit they are innocent of the charges) says a lot more about you than it does about those students. <br />First, it suggests you are unwilling to see the members of the lacrosse team or the specific accused students for what they are--individuals and complex human beings with good and bad qualities, who have had their human share of both positive accomplishments and regrettable actions, and who actually have friends and acquaintances among the student body who have supported them not out of a sheeplike devotion to annointed campus "heroes" but because they believe that the accused are innocent and have been unfairly targeted. <br />Second, it suggests the possibility that you (like some vocal faculty members) are resentful of the status of athletics and athletes at Duke. This is a legitimate topic for debate, although one might ask why someone intelligent enough to get into Duke would choose it over a different sort of school if she did not like the atmosphere that comes with big time athletics. But that debate would be much more productively conducted in the abstract, not at the expense of three wrongly accused individuals who are as entitled to the support of their friends and fellow students as anyone else and don't forfeit that right simply because you don't like them. <br /><br />*Because the members were wild tailgaters? Several Chronicle articles and columns on the debate over tailgate make clear that many more students than the lacrosse players [presumably not including you] love the crazy tailgating tradition. Or because they acted cocky around women? Surely not behavior limited to lacrosse players, nor that really implicates their loyalty to Duke as an institution. <br /><br /><br /><br />David<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 12:32 PM EST <br />Wow! <br />The lacrosse players owe nothing to Duke, at this point. They were not defended nor assumed innocent, they were kicked out of school!! <br /><br />WHY WOULD ANYONE want to attend Duke now?? <br /><br />Yes! The damage has been done!! And it was the Duke administration that showed it could not be trusted with the lives of these young men!! <br /><br />I know I certainly will not be evaluating Duke as an educational institution for my kids. Ever. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Andrew Rosenberg<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 12:38 PM EST <br />I cannot believe the vindictive tone and the inherent anti-white male abhorrence that practically drips off the pages of anything Ms. Malaklou-less has written about this case since Day One. Wait till you get out in the real world, dear. You will soon find that the idyllic world you dream of exists only as a figment of your childlike imagination. There is right and there is wrong with not much in between, and this whole thing smells like a festering piece of rotten flesh in the process of decay. You are a self-hating Dukie - I am sure you will never brag about your days in Durham because you are so miserable being some sort of twisted ultrafeminist. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Linda<br />posted 1/02/07 @ 12:51 PM EST <br />Perhaps the students at Duke are siding with the lacrosse players because they don't want to see three INNOCENT men go to prison for rape. Perhaps they don't like that those players were targeted because of their race and because they go to Duke. <br /><br />But you go on with your pathetic whining about employers maybe not liking you b/c of Duke while the lacrosse players will have it all made. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Alum<br />posted 1/03/07 @ 3:45 PM EST <br />According to Mr. Malaklou's logic, a member of the Duke Commuity shouldn't be happy, connected, or proud when Duke Men's Basketball performs well or one of its members obtains a Rhodes Scholarship. <br /><br />Adopting Malaklou's principles, being arrested and falsely accussed of rape, having one's image and name tarnished in the national press, and losing the faith of family, friends and peers, is equivalent to feeling frustrated during a job interview. <br /><br />Under Malaklou's argument, Duke as a community is faced with a morally reprehensible and false choice: We are able to stand collectively and absorb the benefits of the achievements of the individuals that collectively make the Duke identity. However, when individuals, as representatives of our community, fail, then we have no burden or duty to stand together as a Community to lift them up whatever their transgressions (or support them when they are falsely accused). We are at one time "Duke" able to benefit from our collective achievements and at the same time each of us our alone, individuals only responsible to ourselves with no connection or obligation to others. <br /><br />Mr. Malaklou's view of Duke and of Community is a narrow and sad one, a perception best left for those seeking a life of convenience, dishonor, and ultimately, loneliness. Fortunately, he attends Duke University where he has most likely developed friends and relationships, and, in the end recognizes (even if erroneously) the concepts of community, loyalty, honor and justice. Thus, I am certain that he knows better. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Alum<br />posted 1/03/07 @ 4:11 PM EST <br />As a recent graduate who is familiar with Ms. Makalou's social behavior and character, I must say that I am not surprised in the least by the ignorance and spite expressed in this column. What I can say is that this student's history of shameless table dancing and other unnamed social actions have made her broadly unpopular at best and a locker room laughingstock at worse, effectively undermining any rational argument that she may contribute to this debate. Shadee, your actions belie your apparent concern for women's issues, and we are all worse off for reading your transparently hypocritical columns. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ira Finkelstein<br />posted 1/03/07 @ 4:46 PM EST <br />News Flash: It has been revealed that Shadee Malaklou is actually Sasha Baron Cohen in disguise! (Not!) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Mike<br />posted 1/04/07 @ 12:50 PM EST <br />You're absolutely right Shadee. Those lacrosse players are so lucky this happened. This has all been such a wonderful experience and will greatly help them when they go out into the real world looking for jobs. I'm sure you can hear my sarcasm rolling off the page. <br /><br />And poor you will have to try to defend Duke and bear the brunt of the lacrosse players misdeeds. Sorry if we don't all shed crocodile tears for your poor misfortunes, but get over it. Sorry if we don't feel pity for you, but if you stopped worrying about yourself for a minute and took an honest look at the situation, you'd see that there are real victims here, and you're not one of them. <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />The Utilitarian<br />posted 1/04/07 @ 9:21 PM EST <br />These comments are very disturbing, on the face of them. It is pretty clear to the average viewer that these three men were the subject to serious misconduct and malfeseance by Nifong, and he should be responsible for that. It is also clear that this lacrosse case has been co-opted by special interests within the Duke alumni to push against the tightening hand the Duke administration has been squeezing in order to further it's goal of being a truly national research university. Take away the alcohol culture, add some self-righteous indignation, as well as PERVASIVE campus-wide racist and segregationalist attitudes, mix some personal pejoratives - let's just call this gross behavior. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />James Crowley<br />posted 1/05/07 @ 10:56 AM EST <br />The lacrosse team likes to party and have sex. Why are these reasons to hate them? Make no mistake, those attacking the lacrosse team (and their 'sorority' admirers) are quite guilty of hate. It is ironic to read their posts as they generalize all lacrosse players and then condemn the group for the actions of an individual. Why, one was charged with yelling a racial slur! Hang them all! <br /><br />These are the same emotions and logic which led to men being lynched in days past. Please don't try to justify your emotional feelings at the expense of individuals you don't even know. Again and again the 'lacrosse team' is condemned. Love them or hate them, it is unfair to judge an individual based on the actions of his teammates. While I have no doubt there are misogynists and miscreants on the team, I also have no doubts there are wonderful men on that team, as well. <br /><br />Don't hide from the reality of your own emotions and prejudices. Frankly, many at Duke seem to be predjudiced against jocks and fraternity members. Perhaps you were insulted by one of them or have objected to their hijinks. This does not give you a right to hate athletes and frat boys (or girls). I am a white male and I have been insulted, assaulted, and robbed by black men at various times in my life. Does this give me leave to hate black people? Of course not. Even the Group of 88 would agree that such hatred and predjudice is wrong. Why, then, is okay to hate the troglodytes on fraternity row or in the locker room. <br /><br />I suggest those still trying to rationalize their earlier statements in light of these boys innocense try a simple thought experiment: <br /><br />If this incident had involved a party of black, non-athlete, males and the 'victim' were a white girl (of questionable character), would your reaction have been the same? <br /><br /><br /><br />Duke 06<br />posted 1/05/07 @ 7:59 PM EST <br />Shadee, no one is trying to pretend that the lacrosse players are gods or perfect angels. But we are united behind them because, the truth is that none of us are angels, yourself included. This could have happened to any one of us. Any one of us could have been drunk and ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time. Think about normal Friday night activities - for lacrosse players this could mean hosting a party and inviting a stripper, for others like you it could mean getting wasted and dancing provocatively on a table in front of your peers, something that many posters here (including myself) have witnessed. For me while I was at Duke it might have been getting messed up at Freaky Friday. <br /><br />Whatever it was that we did on the weekends, it could have ended in a similar false accusation... maybe someone I didn't know could have falsely claimed to have been gang-raped at Freaky Friday, and a homophobic prosecutor and police department could have ignored evidence that they made it up. Maybe a girl could have beaten the shit out of another girl near Shooters and you might have been the one identified in a rigged lineup. Would you want your fellow students to automatically presume your guilt because you are known for being drunk and rowdy on occasion? What about after you had been basically proven innocent? Would you want them to say "whatever, she had these accusations coming, I don't owe her anything." <br /><br />You're sort of right, we don't owe the lacrosse players a thing. They were just regular duke students doing what they do to have fun, just like the rest of us do. But we support them anyway, because we know that they are innocent and we hope that if it was our lives being ruined by false accusations of some kind, other Duke students would stand up for us, too. <br /><br /><br /><br />Nancy<br />posted 1/06/07 @ 1:15 PM EST <br />Justice is blind, does the author not realize that while she writes an opinion piece, it must be tempered with full acknowledgement of known facts? <br /><br />Personal rants and bias do not a compelling read make. The piece I just read is not informative, just a pot banging piece of personal hate. <br /><br />Were it the author in a place of being falsely accused and people taking to the streets to drag her name about prematurely and all the subsequent fallout, would her tone change? <br /><br />Absolutely. But would the public, given what we read here, have much sympathy were the tables turned? <br /><br />Not a chance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-10648760536668615712007-01-08T11:36:00.000-05:002007-01-08T11:36:00.000-05:00Hey Joe:
Put the pot away, baby....you're becomin...Hey Joe:<br /><br />Put the pot away, baby....you're becoming that which you purport to despise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-35726149418015683652007-01-08T11:24:00.000-05:002007-01-08T11:24:00.000-05:00uhm, it look like Sam Hummel:
1) Does not know th...uhm, it look like Sam Hummel:<br /><br />1) Does not know the meaning of contradiction. See the bold sections at the beginning and end of the paragraph (I added the bold to the sections). This might not seem like a total contradiction but once we see the people he thanked through the ad for not waiting... They <b>were</b> accusing the players of rape and demanding their castration.<br /><br />2) Does not believe in one of the primary tenet of our justice system, i.e. Innocent until proven guilty, as he always chooses to err on the side of the victim. This completely goes against the spirit of innocent until proven guilty (second bold section) which by definition forces us to err on the side of the accused. <br /><br /> <br /><i><br /><b>Was I out their proclaiming the Lacrosse players guilty? Well, yes.</b> I did<br />and do think they are guilty of perpetuating the objectification of women.<br />I did and do think they protected the person that shouted racial epithets<br />from the porch. I did and do think they are guilty of having put two women<br />in a very unsafe position by lying to the escort service about their<br />identity and the number of men that would be attending the party. I also<br />believed they were guilty of colluding with each other to stifle a police<br />investigation aimed at determining the facts. [The defense now claims they<br />didn't, so it's the police's word versus the defense attorney's.]<b> Was I<br />declaring them guilty of rape? No. While I always err on the side of<br />believing the survivor, that doesn't mean the accused is automatically<br />guilty.</b><br /><br /></i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-69573926813883397942007-01-08T11:17:00.000-05:002007-01-08T11:17:00.000-05:00Kim Curtis who is a writer for the Associated Pres...<i>Kim Curtis who is a writer for the Associated Press?</i><br /><br />That wouldn't surprise me. In the Middle East, AP writers are always members of Hezbollah (if shia) or Al-Qaida (if sunni). al-AP is a left-wing propaganda organisation so it is more than expected that Kim Curtis is their writer. I think she has a perfect CV for AP. If she gets fired, she has guaranteed job at AP or New York Times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-26005441401826678262007-01-08T11:03:00.001-05:002007-01-08T11:03:00.001-05:00to 10:52: indeed.
See for yourself at
http://tin...to 10:52: indeed.<br /><br />See for yourself at<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/uophk<br /><br />There were dozens of comments, ALL negative, Duke Chronicle has blocked them. I reiterate my kind request to Professor Johnson to deal with this "editorial" (which shows the kind of *students* professors like Holloway, Curtis and Davidson produce) and to allow for uncensored comments to be posted. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-66195449061377586072007-01-08T11:03:00.000-05:002007-01-08T11:03:00.000-05:00If 10:41 is correct - about the administration req...If 10:41 is correct - about the administration requiring the team to get off campus - and the the administration didn't intercede on behalf of a team member who was downgraded for not turning a paper in on time because he was off campus, then the administrations is far more complicit in the Curtis scam than I origionally suspected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-26620051045072306612007-01-08T10:58:00.000-05:002007-01-08T10:58:00.000-05:00Regarding comments from Bill Anderson and the reti...Regarding comments from Bill Anderson and the retired prof, I believe comments on the earlier Dowd thread mentioned that Curtis has been at Duke 10 years and is married to another professor. I think this makes the actions or inactions alleged in the Dowd suit credible: Curtis is part of the other prof's pay package, and she is expected to be renewed, although she would never get tenure in an up-or-down vote. (But she's been at Duke, if the comments are correct, longer than a lame duck assistant prof would be!)<br /><br />This would also explain the apparent long-term pattern of bullying behavior that an ordinary contingent faculty member wouldn't get away with as easily. I'm Mrs. Prof. Big! Don't mess with me! And apparently Munger follwed these instructions to the letter.<br /><br />KC, it would be worthwhile to have this info in a verified, centrally located form.<br /><br />Nepotism, of course, is a form of corruption, and in the academcy it is certainly not unique to Duke.<br /><br />John BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-38821892484934591482007-01-08T10:57:00.000-05:002007-01-08T10:57:00.000-05:00Is this visiting professor, Kim Curtis, the same K...Is this visiting professor, Kim Curtis, the same Kim Curtis who is a writer for the Associated Press?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-44451952820006128572007-01-08T10:56:00.000-05:002007-01-08T10:56:00.000-05:00to Bill at 952 from a non-lawyer/retired professor...to Bill at 952 from a non-lawyer/retired professor: About a decade ago, I had a colleague accused of sexual harassment. The charge was eventually found to have no merit, but my honorable collegue was put through a living hell for over a year.<br />Well, the great thing about being a retired academic is that I don't have to worry about such things happening to me. Don't get me wrong; I loved teaching. But now instead of meeting students for the first class of the semester today, I am off to the gym.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-88251160648699368572007-01-08T10:52:00.000-05:002007-01-08T10:52:00.000-05:00Re 10:06
"...although now exonerated, was capable ...Re 10:06<br />"...although now exonerated, was capable of such an act".<br /><br />Am I reading this correctly - that while the rape did not happen the LAX players were capable of doing it anyway? This person cannot be for real.<br /><br />Even Stalin could not be this creative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-8764547063578060852007-01-08T10:45:00.000-05:002007-01-08T10:45:00.000-05:00To 9:52 AM:
I know I am sounding overly cautious...To 9:52 AM:<br /><br />I know I am sounding overly cautious, but that is what we have to do. Students are not above making false charges against faculty members, so we have to adhere to the Caesar's Wife standards.<br /><br />Just a mere accusation, no matter how truthful, can be something that ruins one's career. Sexual harassment has become one of those "biggies" on a college campus, and the only way to stay out of trouble is to make sure that no one can accuse you and have even a ghost of a chance of getting away with it.<br /><br />We have had incidents in which teachers have had sexual relations with students, and it always is recipe for scandal. I just try to make sure that no one can accuse me of anything, and that means being very careful.<br /><br />In my orientation meeting when I first came to the True FSU, the university's lawyer spoke to us about sexual harassment. She told us that if we are accused, we are on our own. No matter what, the university will not back us, unless we can demonstrate unequivocally that the charges are a lie. That is pretty much the case elsewhere, although I am curious as to what the situation was with Houston Baker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com