tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post5596781221873739504..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Items from the Ekstrand Filingkcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-16089389528807040842012-01-14T23:04:35.843-05:002012-01-14T23:04:35.843-05:00I don't know if any of you guys posting commen...I don't know if any of you guys posting comments here (besides KC) have worked in academia.<br /><br />Based on my experiences at Florida Atlantic Univ, such attitudes and cowardice are quite common among university administrators.Jungle Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04772874200270025806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-11916131158585333512012-01-12T02:00:17.643-05:002012-01-12T02:00:17.643-05:00Wow. Twenty-seven pages with some of that duplicat...Wow. Twenty-seven pages with some of that duplication and already bombshells. Duke is gonna be litigationally curb-stomped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-87399424684750626702012-01-11T20:09:03.126-05:002012-01-11T20:09:03.126-05:00At least Nifong had a reason, political advancemen...At least Nifong had a reason, political advancement, for his actions. The Duke officials were merely praying and braying before a false god of political correctness. The only adequate punishment for Brodhead, Steel, et al, is "to the pain" and even that might not be sufficient.Bumpernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-39328875596917364262012-01-10T15:31:27.809-05:002012-01-10T15:31:27.809-05:00Re 10.28
At least Brodhead told the truth when di...Re 10.28<br /><br />At least Brodhead told the truth when directly asked, but he didn't volunteer what he'd known for eleven days, he had to be asked.<br /><br />Morally, he <i>should</i> have publicly challenged Nifong's lie when he first heard of it.LarryDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10955273945502612268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-9561705927488595772012-01-10T00:40:01.262-05:002012-01-10T00:40:01.262-05:00I knew about knights in shining armor, and truth a...I knew about knights in shining armor, and truth and justice, but only from stories. Until this blog came along, I'd never seen it personified. It's also...relentless...as in old.<br /><br />/saluteBorn Freenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-88967151937974103542012-01-09T21:35:42.799-05:002012-01-09T21:35:42.799-05:00Someone should have told Dean Sue not to hide her ...Someone should have told Dean Sue not to hide her light under a bushel. The notion that there was a blue wall of silence was everywhere, helped along by "Blue Devil Made Them Do It." Allan Gurganous wrote, "'The "Don't Tell' part involved not snitching on one another." <br /><br />That is a shame about Ryan McFayden. He deserved much better than Mr. Gurganous' gibe: "I know his parents love him; I hope they get him help." I have exchanged a few emails with him, and he struck me as polite, thoughtful, and intelligent.Chris Halkideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933976220776524122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-85414428077187728672012-01-09T14:26:50.180-05:002012-01-09T14:26:50.180-05:00How close were addressees of the March 17, 2006 e-...How close were addressees of the March 17, 2006 e-mail from Dean Sue Wasiolek to anyone on the Group of 88?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-34012624839460060382012-01-09T14:19:06.014-05:002012-01-09T14:19:06.014-05:00This story is also being followed at www.DukeCheck...This story is also being followed at www.DukeCheck.com in a story posted Jan 2nd. The story labeled Chris Kennedy also references K C Johnson and his book as a source for info on the stripper party entertainment by the Duke basketball team two weeks before the Lacrosse team party.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-75532032348167294212012-01-08T15:29:46.046-05:002012-01-08T15:29:46.046-05:00To the 10.28:
No, I didn't mean to say that. ...To the 10.28:<br /><br />No, I didn't mean to say that. I generally say what I mean, and mean what I say.<br /><br />But thanks for asking!kcjohnson9https://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-83319870696515205122012-01-07T22:28:35.618-05:002012-01-07T22:28:35.618-05:00KC,
When you stated that "Duke administrator...KC,<br /><br />When you stated that "Duke administrators were under no legal obligation to correct the record. (Whether they had a moral obligation to do so is another story.)", didn’t you mean to follow up with the statement, "Fortunately, President Brodhead did anyway"? When questioned at a press conference on March 28, 2006 about DA Nifong’s claim that the players had not cooperated, Brodhead set the record straight and thereby forced Nifong to publically admit the truth.<br /> <br />"As for the investigation, Nifong said it has been difficult to pursue because no one who was at the party is speaking about what happened. But during a news conference Tuesday evening, Brodhead said that some of the team members have cooperated with police.<br /><br />Nifong said Wednesday that the three men who rented the house where the alleged rape happened -- Matthew Zash, Dan Flannery and David Evans -- did speak to police at great length after the party, but that since then most have gotten lawyers and are no longer talking."<br /><br />http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1091545/ <br /><br />Then, two days later, CBS News reported: <br /><br />'Duke President Richard Brodhead told reporters, "Our information is the students gave lengthy statements in response to police inquiries, even before they had lawyers present."'<br /> <br /> (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/30/earlyshow/main1454898.shtml)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-68153335926325278502012-01-07T09:51:26.217-05:002012-01-07T09:51:26.217-05:00Broadhead says, "If they didn’t do it, whatev...Broadhead says, "If they didn’t do it, whatever they did is bad enough."<br /><br />The fact that this guy is still enshrined as President of Duke is amazing. I, too, hope he is torched but at this point, this seems less about the individuals and more about the "institutional tolerance/acceptance" of outrageous, immoral, and cowardly words and deeds. Duke defines itself as moral partner with Durham.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-54075564759859909492012-01-06T17:35:49.512-05:002012-01-06T17:35:49.512-05:00Reading through the whole deposition, one comes aw...Reading through the whole deposition, one comes away with the following:<br />1. Kennedy was and is a man of honor <br />2. Brodhead, Trask, Aleva, Burness, and Wausiolek were and are moral cowards.<br /><br />That Ryan McFayden, an innocent person, would still consider that the only recourse he has is to change his name should be played incessantly to Brodhead, et al until they can understand what harm they did in fact do.<br /><br />cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-87773252230235354212012-01-06T17:01:29.957-05:002012-01-06T17:01:29.957-05:00If these early nuggets are at all indicative of th...If these early nuggets are at all indicative of the info yet to be extracted, Duke, Brodhead, Steel, et al. will be torched in litigation, plain and simple.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-23056944862890920092012-01-06T15:43:25.880-05:002012-01-06T15:43:25.880-05:00What a missed opportunity for Duke!
Key senior ad...What a missed opportunity for Duke!<br /><br />Key senior administrators rejected the chance to do what they had to know was the right thing and, instead, sacrificed students they knew to be innocent in favor of pandering to psuedo political correctness.<br /><br />These sort of revelations are clearly why Duke has desperately tried to avoid, or at least delay, discovery. They must want to be able to say that all the folk who behaved badly are gone or retired, and that there is no longer any justification for retribution.<br /><br />Thank you for keeping on this.jim2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-76477036569580565542012-01-06T15:10:21.620-05:002012-01-06T15:10:21.620-05:00"...they were suffering. And you know, they ...<i>"...they were suffering. And you know, they were - - they were consistently, constantly branded as rapists or misogynists or rapists or racists , or at the very least, covering up for it. And they were branded that way. And local media , on campus, on Nancy Grace, in every possible form of communication they would turn on and find out that they were the worst scum of the earth. <br /><br />"That's pretty hard for an 18-year-old kid <br />away from home to deal with. And then, you know, one of the greatest supports, their coach, is gone." </i><br /><br />Why was that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-56060798579454235762012-01-06T15:06:09.807-05:002012-01-06T15:06:09.807-05:00Odd symmetry in that both the DPD and Duke were re...Odd symmetry in that both the DPD and Duke were repeatedly calling on the players to cooperate, when both knew that the players had cooperated.<br /><br />Why was that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com