Teacher Support for the Duke Players

Time ^ | 1/6/07 | PAUL CUADROS

[freespirited]

Now the teachers are going at each other.

It's about time.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Liberals always knife each other in the back eventually.

[timm22]

Now, after the case against the students appears to be falling apart, 17 members of the economics department faculty have sent a letter to the student newspaper expressing their support for the players,

Good old econ. prof's. It often seems like they are the last bastion of sanity and scholarship in academia.

[Cicero]

Any white male who took that class in the first place either wasn't paying attention or was forced into it. The statement on the professor's web page made it perfectly clear that she was a man-hating, American-hating marxist feminist. Even if the rape case hadn't arisen, taking the course would have been an unpleasant experience for a normal human being, and would have taught him nothing worth learning. So it's not surprising that a male white athlete had a D in the course even before the blowup.

That doesn't excuse Duke from hiring such people and offering such worthless and destructive courses, but young people who go to college nowadays really need to learn how to pick and choose their courses. There are a lot of minefields out there, and the wisest course is to learn how to avoid them.

[ZOOKER]

How many of the original 88 (if any) have recanted and expressed regret for their premature assumption of guilt?

A public apology appears to be in order here (from the perpetrators, not just their peers).

[Tijeras_Slim]

Until now, no faculty member at Duke had come out to support the players.

Gotta love those gutsy heores of academia.

[river rat]

Duke University has waited FAR TOO LONG to put right their anti-Constitutional assault on the accused, regarding the players and their coach..

It is not only the Leftist/Feminazi/Radical 88 vocal Professors who came out and personally attacked the accused -- the entire faculty and administration MUST be held accountable for not coming forward and stating the OBVIOUS --- INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.

Being "Duked" will come into disreputable use as did getting a "Lewinsky" or being "Borked".

Duke lost more credibility than did Nifong and the Justice system -- because as an institution of "higher learning" they are charged with TEACHING the meaning of the Constitution, Equal Protection under the law and INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY....

But Duke and its faculty took the normal academia low road and demonstrated their bias and leftist racist political correctness -- rather than INTELLECT.

Duke is doomed....as it should be...
I hope the parents of the accused - sue the sonsuvbitches into abject poverty forcing them to renege on financial obligations to the feckless imbeciles they call a "faculty"..

Semper Fi

[Peach]

Ping

[cpdiii]

In most colleges the last bastion of sanity lies in the School of Pure and Applied Sciences. Fortunately the rules of math, chemistry, physics, medicine, and geology are not subject to political interpretation.

[highimpact]

That doesn't excuse Duke from hiring such people and offering such worthless and destructive courses,

Conservative professors are pretty much non-existent in "humanities" courses. Most colleges require a certain number of credit hours for humanities-related undergraduate work. The players probably looked at the course book and selected the classes that looked easy. I was in the same boat 15 years ago. All of my "humanities" courses are instructed by uber-Liberal professors.

but young people who go to college nowadays really need to learn how to pick and choose their courses.

That's like choosing between the lesser of two evils. None of the players could have predicted their infamous notoriety. They are guilty of being players on a lacrosse team that was subjected to an ill-conceived prosecution. They are not guilty of poor course selection.

[shiva]

I was for the war before I was against it, or, I wouldn't have voted for the war had I known then what I know now.....Sound familar? Great political potentials here.

[kittymyrib]

Duke, as well as countless other universities, should be sued for hiring these PC pimps to harrass white male students in their classes. These pathetic man-haters should be working the registers at Walmart, which would be much more useful to society than peddling their gender warfare on campuses, while parents and students struggle to pay the bloated salaries of these vacant minds.

[outofstyle]

In most colleges the last bastion of sanity lies in the School of Pure and Applied Sciences.

Witness the number of accomplished scientists who have willingly tolerated the junk science surrounding climate change.

[Howlin]

Zero, although one of them did TRY to excuse herself yesterday by calling it a "social disaster."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762876/posts

[sodpoodle]

Being "Duked" will come into disreputable use as did getting a "Lewinsky" or being "Borked".

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Duke - already a nown - "put up your Dukes" a verb -"Duke it out" - now a 4-letter profanity - Duke U!

[Howlin]

Sorry, too late, IMO.

Lots and lots of people look too much like they are trying to get out in front of the parade.

[kjo]

Conservative professors are pretty much extinct at all public universities.

I have a friend with a PhD in mass comm and econ and thirteen years experience on Wall Street with some big name firms. No major university, not in the South would touch him. After one interview he was told by a member of the committe that the fear was he was likely a Republican, and they didn't want one of those on staff.

I'm not kidding. They would NOT hire a person because he might be a Republican.

[patton]

exemple gracias, "We condomn thee, Galileo Galilea, as an heritic..."

[Howlin]

I have been shocked to discover just how entrenched these man haters are at this college.

Take a look at this article about Houston Baker, one of the leaders of the Group of 88:


Baker: In His Own Words
The Vanderbilt Register is the “paper of record for Vanderbilt University.” An official publication, it appears once every two weeks.

It recently published a profile of one of Vanderbilt’s new professors, Houston Baker. The article highlighted Baker’s telling of his past achievements in “typically self-effacing fashion,” and offered a fawning tone throughout. The chair of the English Department, Jay Clayton, hailed Baker as “one of the most wide-ranging intellectuals in America today in any field of the humanities. He is prolific and writes to an audience far broader than academic specialties.”

Here’s how the article described Baker’s behavior last spring, in a tone and content that suggested admiration for his activities: “He also was the leading dissident voice inside Duke University regarding that administration’s handling of rape accusations against members of its lacrosse team.”

How did Baker become the “leading dissident”? The paper doesn't actualy tell people at Vanderbilt.

In late March, lamenting the “college and university blind-eying of male athletes, veritably given license to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech, and feel proud of themselves in the bargain,” Baker issued a public letter denouncing the “abhorrent sexual assault, verbal racial violence, and drunken white male privilege loosed amongst us.” To act against “violent, white, male, athletic privilege,” he urged the “immediate dismissals” by Duke of “the team itself and its players.”

Has Baker adopted a more tolerant attitude between last March and the penning of the Vanderbilt publication? It appears not. A mother of an unindicted lacrosse player recently wrote him, “asking for your help.” She noted,


Over the past eight months, much of the evidence has revealed that the three falsely indicted young men have been the victims of rogue DA Nifong. They have been denied due process and are the victims of a possible conspiracy. Whatever you believed in March, I am sure you must be questioning the actions of DA Nifong. Therefore, I respectfully request that you join Pres. Brodhead in asking for a special prosecutor. In addition, I respectfully request you petition Pres. Brodhead to allow Collin and Reade to resume classes this spring.

Our paths may have been different, but I am sure all of us seek the truth and justice. This can only be accomplished with an impartial prosecutor. Collin and Reade, along with Dave, have had to put their lives on hold due to a false accusation. I trust that with the filing of ethics charges by the NC State Bar and the Conference of District Attorneys calling for DA Nifong to recuse himself, we can all agree that justice can best be served with Nifong’s removal.

Here is the full text of Baker’s reply:


LIES! You are just a provacateur on a happy New Years Eve trying to get credit for a scummy bunch of white males! You know you are in search of sympaathy [sic] for young white guys who beat up a gay man [sic] in Georgetown, get drunk in Durham, and lived like “a bunch of farm animals” near campus.

I really hope whoever sent this stupid farce of an email rots in .... umhappy [sic] new year to you ... and forgive me if your really are, quite sadly, mother of a “farm animal.”


So speaks “one of the most wide-ranging intellectuals in America today in any field of the humanities.”

[pieceofthepuzzle]

If University tuition costs continue to increase, and the monolithic political posturing of their liberal arts faculty continues unabated, university education will be challenged very strongly by electronic / Internet curricula. It will happen, and when it becomes clear, just as with home schooling, that those educated in this manner actually score higher on objective measures than those educated in high tuition universities, the paradigm will shift.