Durham-in-Wonderland

Updates on five* matters: [Update, Wed., 7.40pm: 1) The New York Times editorializes that the Supreme Court should affirm (as, indeed, ...

[Update, Sunday, 6.32pm: After an overwhelming number of trustees expressed support for the Penn State president, renegade Trustee McCombie,...

The H-S brings news this morning that Duke’s attorneys have succeeded in obtaining a protective order to prevent discovery items from bein...

A couple of updates: Stuart Taylor and I had an op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal , examining the . . . considerable gap betwee...

[Update, 18 July, 8.38am: The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews, among others, John Burness about the Freeh Report. In his remarks ,...

Three brief items: 1.) The N&O reports that Crystal Mangum, in papers filed by her de facto attorney, Sydney Harr, has demanded that ...

A reminder that you can follow me on Twitter ; I tweet links to all my new posts both here and (on other higher-ed matters) at Minding the C...

In general, the lacrosse case featured a level of non-responsiveness from key figures at Duke. (There were clear exceptions to this pattern:...

In many ways the lacrosse case that hit the Duke campus was a perfect storm. A media that (thanks to the botched Samiha Khanna interview i...

The Herald-Sun reports that the 4th Circuit has scheduled oral arguments for sometime in the third week of September for Durham's appea...

The N&O reports that disgraced ex-DA Tracey Cline has offered a Durham definition of chutzpah: she has filed a request that taxpayers ...

Update, Saturday, 12.16pm: The complaint is available on the Bar's website . The complaint itself is divided into two parts. The first...

[Update, Saturday, 5.57pm: And, in a further aspect of the annals of non- accountability : Duke has just extended Richard Brodhead's con...

[Update, 6 May, 10.33am: As of this morning, the comments section in which Adjunct Prof. Murphy made her false statements is not visible on ...

The Liestoppers forum has posted the deposition transcript of Duke police first sergeant Gary Smith . Smith’s name would be known to peopl...