Posted on 01/05/2007 11:01:51 AM PST by Enchante
“We didn’t feel like we could send him to Duke with everything that was going on,” said Tricia Dowd, of East Northport, N.Y. “Believe me, we loved Duke ... but we didn’t know what the professors would do.”
Many professors don't understand, "Innocent until proven guilty."
It would be a plea in "equity."
How very convenient. I don't think many universities will let you graduate unless you re-take any course that you fail and get a passing grade. By re-jiggering the grade (& granting a few transfer credit-hours) the University gets rid of the problem.
This is one that should also prove a grave embarrassment and disgrace to that PC-pathetic so-called "university" (though the Duke faculty and bureaucrats are evidently already far beyond shame).
If a student can be failed merely for being on the same team as the (falsely) accused then Duke has sunk even lower than I'd thought.....
This kind of crap really annoys me.
All these young men were tarnished.
One Duke player, not involved, tried to transfer to Syracuse. Was turned down simply because he was from Duke. Syracuse has lost my support.
When it comes to white, Christian, conservative, Republican types only.
She's part of the group of 88 that has been bashing the Lacrosse players in public. She's a Lefty from San Francisco who went even loopier at ZOOMASS. Read some of her environmental rants.
The question that begs to be answered is - Why spend your hard-earned money to send your kids to these schools?
Granted these kids had scholarships, but absent that why?
The vast majority of liberal arts programs are nothing more than indoctrination camps.
If my child told me I was paying from them to attend a course on "Politics and Literature", I would in this order: 1. Laugh in their face, 2. Stop payment on any tuition checks and 3. Seriously question my child's judgement.
Finally , the law suits begin. This will be fun to watch....
The fun won't begin until Nifong is sitting behind bars.
Neither do some FReepers, based upon another thread I was on earlier today.
I would bet that not ALL of the lacrosse palyers were on scholarship...just think of the $200,000 wasted by some parents for a child now with a tainted degree and reputation just because of a racism hustle
This is another example of why university education has become suspect. I have no doubt that a liberal professor such as this one would intentionally fail these students because of her prejudiced opinion of them. She owes these students and their parents an apology.
You don't need credentials to teach at the college level. Unless you consider liberal politics a credential.
Duke University should be ashamed of itself for not supporting the students who were wrongly accused.The PC crowd on most college campuses are a disgrace to humanity.I hope these kids never go back to that school unless the administration issues a public apology to them.
DUKE UNIVERSITY IS NOW CALLED "FLUKE UNIVERSIY".
No need to study, just work real hard at achieveing a vaunted, ignorant state of political correctness, and any student can "A" their way through to graduation.
Along with a large sum from her savings account I hope.
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