[Locomotive Breath]

Provost Peter Lange on 'Free Speech and Speaking Freely'
By Peter Lange

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/lange.html

Oh my poor poor faculty. They attacked other people and now can't understand the counterattack.

[Howlin]

When the events of the spring unfolded we witnessed an unimagined intensity of vituperative language and distasteful and deeply hurtful caricatures of Duke students, our campus and its culture, our Durham community and our relationship to our neighbors in the city.

Well, gee, Provost, who was it was doing all the stirring of those pots and pans? It sure as hell wasn't the Duke players or their families.

[maggief]

HYPOCRITES!

[JoanOfArk]

I know how those faculty victims operate. I'm sure they managed to shock Lange with hundreds of faux emails and racist remarks they, themselves, added to the comment sections of blogs.

[RecallMoran]

I guess we know what their legal defense will be. Lange never defends what the faculty said nor does he ever say it is warranted or had a basis, only that mean people criticized them in over the top terms. While I;ve no doubt that is true, it is also trued that neither Brodhead in his rambling statement nor Lange ever say what it is. Part of a pattern -- Brodhead always alludes to the reprehensible/dishonorable/choose your negative word behavior of the lacrosse tea mwithout ever sayign what it is.

These folks are in for a rude awakening when the civil suits come down the pike. Actions have consequences. To compare the anguish and maltreatment of the three indicted players with some nasty e-mails some faculty may have received is ludicrous. The words pampered and haughty come to mind.