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Duke Prof. Quits Committees in Protest
AP via SFGate ^ | 1/12/7

Posted on 01/12/2007 11:10:32 AM PST by SmithL

A Duke University professor resigned from her committee assignments, saying she was upset by the administration's decision to invite two lacrosse players accused of sexual assault back to campus.

"The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," Karla Holloway, an English professor and former dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, wrote to Duke's black faculty caucus.

"Despite our judgments about the prosecutor's own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process," she wrote.

Earlier this month, officials at Duke said charged lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann could return to school as students in good standing. They were suspended last year after a woman hired to perform as a stripper at a lacrosse team party accused them of rape and sexual assault. A third player, Dave Evans, graduated the day before he was indicted.

. . . Holloway was one of 88 faculty members at Duke who endorsed an ad last April in the campus newspaper that included anonymous quotes from students discussing racism and sexual assault on Duke's campus. She said she receives angry, racist e-mails attacking her for being among the school's critics.

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KEYWORDS: academia; duke; dukelax; holloway; karlaholloway; lacrosse
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To: SmithL

She quit committees?!! Excuse me while I spray my coffee...


21 posted on 01/12/2007 11:20:26 AM PST by Havisham
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To: rabscuttle385

I went to UVA--when it was still conservative. My first-year dorm was near the engineering school. I can't figure out what happened there.


22 posted on 01/12/2007 11:20:58 AM PST by twigs
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To: SmithL
"The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," Karla Holloway, an English professor and former dean of Humanities and Social Sciences

Good to see that she believes in 'innocent until proven guilty'. Well, that's one idiot prof gone form Duke! Wonder how applications and enrollment have been affected by this judicial farce? And the b-ball team has lost its first two conference games!

23 posted on 01/12/2007 11:21:33 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: Enchante

" what does this charlatan actually know about English Literature????"

I think she teaches "Hooked on Ebonics".


24 posted on 01/12/2007 11:21:51 AM PST by Beagle8U
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To: wideawake
Mondays 3:30pm-4:30pm at the Law School
(Room 4012) and by appointment

LOL! One hour per week? Man I should have become a college prof - summers off too!

25 posted on 01/12/2007 11:24:34 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: SmithL
How racist of her...


26 posted on 01/12/2007 11:24:51 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Beagle8U

I be hooked on ebonics mother f***er. LOL


27 posted on 01/12/2007 11:33:49 AM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: zarf

I'd hit it.

With a rape charge and civil lawsuit on the pillow the next morning??????

No way!

28 posted on 01/12/2007 11:35:56 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: SmithL

I got one word to describe her and it ain't pretty....


29 posted on 01/12/2007 11:36:22 AM PST by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: SmithL

What a despicable bonehead


30 posted on 01/12/2007 11:38:42 AM PST by clamper1797 (Per caritate viduaribus orphanibusque sed prime viduaribus)
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To: Rummyfan

To be fair, many professors have limited "walk-in" office hourse -- they expect students to make appointments.


31 posted on 01/12/2007 11:38:53 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: twigs

Destroy the humanities and social sciences. Wipe them out.


32 posted on 01/12/2007 11:39:49 AM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: SmithL
it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process,"

I doubt the Duke process is to kick kids out of school every time it is alleged they do something wrong.

The "subversion" was kicking the kids out before they were found guilty.

I have to temper that, I guess. If you "knew" someone was a rapist, you would probably not want them to be allowed on campus walking around waiting for their trial. But then you wouldn't want them in the community either, so I guess if they are allowed out on bail then they should be allowed back at school.

33 posted on 01/12/2007 11:40:51 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: D-Chivas
Probably looking for a raise at a different school.

No doubt. The average salary at Duke (Google) is ONLY $131,246 (2005). Poor girl is OBVIOUSLY worth MUCH more!! /S

34 posted on 01/12/2007 11:46:46 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: SmithL
it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process

Then they shouldn't have been expelled before a verdict, you foul intellectually fraudulent overpromoted race-baiting twit.

But I mean that in a nice, only slighly smug and condescending way. :-)

35 posted on 01/12/2007 11:47:21 AM PST by Ramius ([sip])
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To: wideawake
I read recently that New England is also under represented in the Military.

And although she is a Professor of “English Teaching” (what the heck is that?) her office is in the Law School.

Why is a Liberal Arts Prof in the Law School? How are her students expected to find her?

36 posted on 01/12/2007 11:49:36 AM PST by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
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To: Pontiac
Why is a Liberal Arts Prof in the Law School?

My guess is that she demanded prestigious office space and the only open office that met her standards was in the Law School building.

This kind of petty political garbage is common on campus.

37 posted on 01/12/2007 11:53:10 AM PST by wideawake
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To: SmithL

Shes a professor the way Lindsay Lohan is an actress


38 posted on 01/12/2007 11:53:56 AM PST by skaterboy
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To: AmishDude

I most certainly would NOT want to wipe out humanities and social sciences. Although now I'm older, I've gone back to school and have been taking history and lit courses for several years. I love them. But I'm fortunate to go to a small school that still teaches the subject matter instead of trying to impose an idealogy.


39 posted on 01/12/2007 11:58:58 AM PST by twigs
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To: twigs

It's gone beyond hope. There are no standards anymore, most of the fields are totally politicized.

Besides, if it's enjoyable, it's not academics. It's entertainment.


40 posted on 01/12/2007 12:03:03 PM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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