It amuses me that Brodhead can't make a point in less than 5000 words if that many. The Brodhead apologists have the same disease on the other forums. He had a long long article, his commencement speech, in the last Duke Magazine that could have been reduced to "try new things". What made it even more amusing was that most of the new things he suggested doing were focused on Durham. Durham obviously has such a soft spot for Duke students and Duke students, I'm sure, now have a soft spot for Durham. He wants them to work with the underpriviledged kids--laudable on its face, but can you imagine what kind of accusations that would open these students to in this climate? I hope LB gets a word in at the Duke Forum today.
Yeah, white Duke students should go out into the "black community" of Durham and aid its denizens. They shouldn't worry about being sued, falsely accused of all manner of unsavory crimes, robbed, hustled, criticized, taunted, threatened and called names.