tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post8038498895461840319..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: March Madness, III: The Facultykcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-29185534969792911372009-10-20T15:28:48.022-04:002009-10-20T15:28:48.022-04:00Sorry, I meant for this nomination to go into the ...Sorry, I meant for this nomination to go into the Op-Ed section of March Madness.<br /><br />ChrisChris Halkideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933976220776524122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-12899762979429541582009-10-06T18:36:38.084-04:002009-10-06T18:36:38.084-04:00I nominate Lester Munson's "Circumstantia...I nominate Lester Munson's "Circumstantial Evidence: Duke lacrosse case far more complex than it looks." The title of this piece from 18 April 2006 makes it sound as if it will be an even-handed sifting through the facts. Yet, each of the first four points, and arguably the fifth point, assumes that an attack took place. There are no excuses for this article.<br /><br />ChrisChris Halkideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933976220776524122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-55859695383883080282007-03-26T23:23:00.000-04:002007-03-26T23:23:00.000-04:00I keep reading how this was a white on black crime...I keep reading how this was a white on black crime (reverse the order if you care to). Without prejudging the case on race....Rape is an inexcusable offense. This case does not display the elements that must be met to prove the occurance of a rape (or for that matter..a sexual assault). I find it hard to believe that as such, the suggestion that such a crime could possibly occur (but apparently didn't) could support the theory that over-priveleged athletes (be they white or black), would suggest that an imbalance prevails on Duke's campus. <BR/><BR/>I suggest that the real problem is that such a perception exists whether it is real or imagined.<BR/><BR/>Based on the comments of the 88, one can only assume that they are pushing a racial agenda, and not an agenda that focuses on the safety and security of all Duke students (athletes as well).<BR/><BR/>Duke is a time honored institution, and boasts a very diverse population. It includes not only blacks and whites, but Hispanic, Muslim Jewish and other persuations. Why must this come down to black and white?<BR/><BR/>Could it be that many people in this community would use a tragedy to advance thier agenda? Or could it be that many people would use the suggestion of a tragedy for the same purpose. It doesn't really matter. The tragedy is only lived by a victim. The people who imagine the suffering of the victim, reach out in consolation. And the People who imagine the tragedy, bang pots in retribution.<BR/><BR/>This was not a white on black crime, nor a black on white crime. Apparently it was not a crime. Let's get back to the basics....we all have neighbors. They may be black, white or brown, they are sill our neighbors. If one of our neighbor's children is the m.v.p. of the world series...we all celebrate that regardless of race. We need to learn to condemn equally the actions of evil....without regards to race. Likewise we need not condemn evil due to race. <BR/><BR/>This would have been a horrific crime if it happened...but it is not horrific simply becaus it could be imagined.nohateherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065779212338767044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-76787539895854339062007-03-21T16:19:00.000-04:002007-03-21T16:19:00.000-04:00To 9:41You want to give credit to Holloway for rea...To 9:41<BR/><BR/>You want to give credit to Holloway for realizing that a case with a spring date and civil litigation to follow was going to linger? That’s like petting a dog on the head for sitting on command. The real question is how did an unreliable stripper’s transparently false allegations become a national story. Karla and the rest of the G88 are partly responsible for the current situation.<BR/><BR/>In the second paragraph the current “social context” is that less than half of one percent of black women are raped by white men and a gang rape of a black women by a white group of athletes last occurred in 1991 to my knowledge. The party caused no “social contexts to emerge that I can identify. In the lax case the white men are innocent and the black woman is guilty. The group that attempted to portray the incident as an Indonesian shadow play was the G88 with Karla leading the posse. <BR/><BR/>The second paragraph has a good example of why her prose sucks. After pointing to four distinct categories (white, black, male, female) in the very next sentence she terms them capacious. While capacious may appear on a SAT it means exactly the opposite of what Holloway was trying to say. The entire essay is pretentious wordy and lacking clarity. I would suggest you read Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language”. Link below<BR/><BR/>http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-18988123681923101022007-03-21T11:57:00.000-04:002007-03-21T11:57:00.000-04:00KC,I was just pondering, and I'm wondering if a te...KC,<BR/>I was just pondering, and I'm wondering if a teacher calling her students "rapists" (Kim Curtis and I believe others as well) constitutes sexual harassment, and would that also be grounds for A) a lawsuit against Duke and B) Duke revoking tenure (though Curtis has none).<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that declaring false accusations about someone's sexual practices to their face should constitute sexual harassment. Is it any different than a male teacher calling a female student a "slut" in front of a classroom?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13208454619795882303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-16173771961413169052007-03-21T06:16:00.000-04:002007-03-21T06:16:00.000-04:00RE: "Does any literate person think this professor...RE: "Does any literate person think this professor [Karla Holloway] is qualified to grade English composition at any level?" <BR/><BR/>Answering with a simple "no" might lead readers to question the Ph.D pool from which Duke draws its literary life-blood. <BR/><BR/>Exhibit B: <BR/>http://www.amazon.com/Bookmarks-Karla-F-C-Holloway/dp/0813539072/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-5451402-1726537Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11455115946266214907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-45383761779525200352007-03-20T23:27:00.000-04:002007-03-20T23:27:00.000-04:00OMG 9:41 is Cash - would recongize his style anywh...OMG 9:41 is Cash - would recongize his style anywhere. The old 85 word sentance is a terrific effort, but not understandable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-10195668872159744602007-03-20T23:00:00.000-04:002007-03-20T23:00:00.000-04:00K.C. Backup candidate here for March Madness award...K.C. <BR/><BR/>Backup candidate here for March Madness awards...perhaps an open category for miscellany. <BR/><BR/>Anonymous 9:41 said... <BR/>...And for you people who have trouble reading complex sentences, try to start over in your Dick and Jane readers. The ability to handle words with more than one syllable, and compound sentences will come. (One hopes). But if not, there are lower paying jobs available for you all.Gary Packwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177986821224068759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-28336190232834067102007-03-20T22:18:00.000-04:002007-03-20T22:18:00.000-04:009:41Well done - condescending and fact-free. You m...9:41<BR/><BR/>Well done - condescending and fact-free. You must be right!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-70885758008468922482007-03-20T22:02:00.000-04:002007-03-20T22:02:00.000-04:007:49 If it is as you say, I take back my Crowley c...7:49 If it is as you say, I take back my Crowley criticism, especially if he's an open-minded Duke prof.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-216086619566668942007-03-20T21:58:00.000-04:002007-03-20T21:58:00.000-04:00Hollaway can write worth beans. She is a master of...Hollaway can write worth beans. She is a master of punctuation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-43734977829181041852007-03-20T21:41:00.000-04:002007-03-20T21:41:00.000-04:00You can complain as you like about Holloway, but a...You can complain as you like about Holloway, but as the earlier poster said, she was right. Prescient even. And that's "Professor Holloway" to you people.<BR/><BR/>Now, read slowly after me...<BR/><BR/>1. "Despite the damaging logic that associates the credibility of a socio-cultural context to the outcome of the legal process, we will find that even as the accusations that might be legally processed are confined to a courtroom, the cultural and social issues excavated in this upheaval linger."<BR/><BR/>She's right about that. Lingering even a year later.<BR/><BR/>Now once again, slowly...<BR/><BR/>2." In nearly every social context that emerged following the team's crude conduct, innocence and guilt have been assessed through a metric of race and gender. White innocence means black guilt. Men's innocence means women's guilt. These capacious categories, which were in absolute play the night of the team's drunken debacle, continue their hold on the campus and the Durham community."<BR/><BR/>Can you handle the truth? The focus, comments, and hooligans on this blog prove her right once again. <BR/><BR/>And for you people who have trouble reading complex sentences, try to start over in your Dick and Jane readers. The ability to handle words with more than one syllable, and compound sentences will come. (One hopes). But if not, there are lower paying jobs available for you all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-46056041148265144002007-03-20T20:31:00.000-04:002007-03-20T20:31:00.000-04:0011:22 I have been on this board almost from the be...11:22 I have been on this board almost from the beginning. It took me awhile to figure out MSM also. However, instead of whinning and blaming someone else, I worked on the letters. I am from Las Vegas= bring it on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-38096627421069353312007-03-20T20:04:00.000-04:002007-03-20T20:04:00.000-04:0010:38 What yyou wrote about Dan and the Lax team i...10:38 What yyou wrote about Dan and the Lax team is just not true. Other than the statement,"Coming from Duke, I can see where it could have happened", he has supported the innocent until proven quilty theme. I want Dab to change some things at MSNBC also, but doublt that we are in agreement over what needs to be changed. Probably shows, they are in the middle,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-9792258188168938842007-03-20T19:49:00.000-04:002007-03-20T19:49:00.000-04:00No - Not Tom Crawley. He just wanted to chat and w...No - Not Tom Crawley. He just wanted to chat and walked into a buzz saw. He apologized almost immediately. Everett from the law school and AG Rud deserve dishonorable mention, but as Professor Tom from Purdue writes, the competion is stiff,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-72258270656348536122007-03-20T19:09:00.000-04:002007-03-20T19:09:00.000-04:00I have just finished the article of third place fi...I have just finished the article of third place finisher, Karla Holloway's. It is so poorly written that one wonders how she ever got to be a professor of English.<BR/><BR/>What a self-pitying, jargon filled piece of drivel. The most startling revelation for me was the endnote in which she thanked three other faculty members for their careful reading of her article and for their helpful suggestions. Were they too embarassed to tell her how awful her writing was?<BR/><BR/>Does any literate person think this professor is qualified to grade English composition at any level? <BR/><BR/>Frightening!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-36543681249516125912007-03-20T19:07:00.000-04:002007-03-20T19:07:00.000-04:00K.C, for our continued reading pleasure, do you ha...K.C, for our continued reading pleasure, do you have a list of your runners-up to the 10 worst case-related publications of the Duke faculty?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-67538722059526138722007-03-20T18:05:00.000-04:002007-03-20T18:05:00.000-04:00Honorable mention, at the very least, should go to...Honorable mention, at the very least, should go to Duke Prof. Thomas Crowley for unmitigated igorance of facts and unabashed, if not suckling, apologia for Nifong in an op-ed piece lampooned <A HREF="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/061115" REL="nofollow">here</A> by Michael Gaynor.<BR/><BR/>Prof. Crowley is a geologist. He not only studies rocks, he crawls out from under them occasionally.<BR/><BR/>Also- thanks for including Tim Tyson in your roast. What a vile screed he laid down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-27143951885259771402007-03-20T17:08:00.000-04:002007-03-20T17:08:00.000-04:002:05 PM says...and that is about all there is at F...2:05 PM says..<I>.and that is about all there is at Faux News (starting with the very "Fair and Balanced" Brian Kilmeade and "Mr. Happy" [once again, LOL at the tool-box who calls himself "Mr. Happy"], and that blonde woman), working its way through the day with a few shows purportedly news without slant, then rearing up with a conservative 1-2-3-4-5 conservative knockout punch (with Mr. Mutant, Alan Colmes,</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks for the very cogent yet dislocated polemic on the World of Media, according to YOU. I think we can agree that one man's "moderate" is another man's "extremist right wing fanatic", and vice versa.<BR/><BR/>Back to topic, however, youre the one who launched into a spirited defense of MSNBC (!?) , out of the clear blue. Were you, perhaps , lost in blog-land ? Do you need a lift back to town?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-84643328568595349052007-03-20T16:59:00.000-04:002007-03-20T16:59:00.000-04:00The 2:05 pm poster: They have the Nation with tha...The 2:05 pm poster: They have the Nation with that windbag Fred Barnes as a magazine.<BR/><BR/>I'm not entirely sure what the author of this post was trying to say. This particular sentence seems nonsensical. <BR/>The Nation magazine is a progressive magazine with liberals such as Katrina vanden Heuvel. Fred Barnes is connected with the Weekly Standard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-49215208031888734542007-03-20T15:35:00.000-04:002007-03-20T15:35:00.000-04:00Alex Rosenberg can count himself unlucky (or lucky...Alex Rosenberg can count himself unlucky (or lucky depending on how he looks at it) that his bizarre comments about the sexual availability of rich Duke coeds, coupled with his temperance campaign, weren't sufficient to get him into the top ten; but one has to admit that the competition in this category is awfully stiff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-80251184915449757992007-03-20T15:21:00.000-04:002007-03-20T15:21:00.000-04:00CNN isn't even remotely comparable as a left-wing ...<I>CNN isn't even remotely comparable as a left-wing version of Faux News on the right. </I><BR/><BR/>Day off from work, Karla?<BR/>This Fox bashing by Karla/Gang88 is funny. I'm sure they believe it. "It must be true", just like Nifong hoax. They really want to believe it.<BR/><BR/>Seriously, Fox News has not been caught fabricating stories, participating in criminal acts, distorting news like CNN, New York Times, CBS News and left-wing sources. It's hardly a surprise that only Fox News and NY Post are increasing circulation/audience while NYT/CNN/CBS are losing it. Fake news work only so far.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-68800498620299877032007-03-20T15:12:00.001-04:002007-03-20T15:12:00.001-04:00The place for meeting and sharing with other races...The place for meeting and sharing with other races and cultures is in public school. Unfortunately, wtih the demise of education due to the "class moves as fast as the slowest student",people who can afford private education (whether rich or working four jobs to get the tuition money) do it. Bring back tracking and vocational schools. Bring back the draft also. The country is polarized and becoming more so. No one can make folk intermingle unless they want to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-65677789379803609862007-03-20T14:45:00.000-04:002007-03-20T14:45:00.000-04:0011:22 AM --Recalling the words of Slim Pickens in ...11:22 AM --<BR/><BR/>Recalling the words of Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles, what in the wide, wide world of sports does your discussion about the liberal or conservative nature of mainstream media, whether it be MSNBC or Fox, have to do with the BS that my comment @ 10:53 AM was addressing with respect to 8:11 AM -- Emmett Till, the KKK, and NASCAR? If you are 8:11, try to explain why that comment was worth posting. Your 11:22 is completely off that topic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-55593307222338806772007-03-20T14:41:00.000-04:002007-03-20T14:41:00.000-04:0012:44 said:"Sorry, but I think its hilarious how h...12:44 said:<BR/><BR/>"Sorry, but I think its hilarious how hard it is for you to handle the (very, very predictable) counter-cultural backlash from the direct descendants of the people who were owned by your direct ancestors." etc.<BR/><BR/>Ooooo, now I see it all so clearly. My well earned guilt because I am a white male requires me to hold these people to a lower standard, just as they seem to have been held to a lower academic standard when hired (just read some of their writings). Because bad things happened to their ancestors they get a free card, and although they want justice for themselves, it is unfair to expect it for others who have not gone through what they (mostly vicariously) did.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for explaining it so well.<BR/><BR/>Bill AlexanderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com