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In Princeton’s Contempt for Justice, Shades of Duke Lacrosse
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | June 27, 2022 | Richard K. Vedder

Posted on 06/27/2022 12:19:34 PM PDT by karpov

Presidents of prestigious universities often make outrageous decisions inconsistent with such bedrock values as freedom of expression and providing the accused with traditional American due process. The shameful manner in which Princeton University fired Joshua Katz, a distinguished scholar and winner of several teaching awards, leads me to consider Christopher Eisgruber to be the worst Ivy League president, eclipsing even the earlier shenanigans of Yale’s Peter Salovey.

Princeton’s invidious ousting of Katz is objectionable on at least six grounds:

For those unfamiliar with the case, Prof. Katz was fired over alleged improprieties related to an offense—having consensual sexual relations with a 21-year-old girl—that took place over 15 years ago (!). Only after Katz started saying things that the Princeton administration did not like did it punish him for that incident. Fully a dozen years after the 2006 transgression, it suspended Katz without pay for one year. Then, in 2020, Katz expressed his disapproval of so-called anti-racist demands made by some members of the Princeton community after the George Floyd killing. That led to a story in The Daily Princetonian about the 2006 incident, prompting the school to reopen the case, accuse Katz of new improprieties related to the incident, and fire him. (See Katz’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal for more details.)

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TOPICS: Education
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1 posted on 06/27/2022 12:19:34 PM PDT by karpov
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After the legal process played out, it turned out that the girl involved was not raped (she is now in prison for murdering a boyfriend). The prosecutor who brought the charges in a sensationalized way to assure his own election was disbarred. Duke paid a huge sum (according to some press accounts, $60 million) to victimized lacrosse players.

Equally important, Al Sharpton did everything he could to get TV facetime and stir the pot against The Duke Five. When he was proven wrong and asked for an apology, he said he will always defend "his people". Nothing wrong with that, but when you're proven wrong, perhaps you should learn from it. He hasn't, as this happened after he did the same thing in the Tawana Brawley case where she also lied about the attack. Sharpton feels that, because he's black, he gets a free pass and can say anything he wants even when it's a lie. Indeed, that same immunity seems to apply to tax fraud, too.

2 posted on 06/27/2022 12:56:20 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: karpov

The next legal front for conservatives MUST be equal application of the law: justice for one but not for another is no justice.

I wonder that the attacked Justices aren’t figuring out something along these lines.


3 posted on 06/27/2022 12:59:23 PM PDT by nicollo (the rule of law is not arbitrary)
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Goes back to the old adage... don’t dip your pen in the company ink. The students are by definition - company ink.


4 posted on 06/27/2022 1:25:27 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intIend to RULE.)
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