[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

[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.

[Republican Wildcat]

Kim Curtis, a visiting associate professor who specializes in political and feminist theory

It's amazing the stuff people can manage to get paid for.

[Tzimisce]

...only now are they coming out in support of the students? Only now that it won't cost them anything?

If I was one of the players I'd tell these a$$hole$ to stick it - where were you 9 months ago WHEN I NEEDED YOU?

[Hildy]

What right did the teacher's have to judge before the trial anyway?

[FormerACLUmember]

Research on "Professor" Kim Davis:

A Google search reveals that this monster supported Bill Clinton's sexual harassment of women (because of all he allegedly did for the womens movement he deserved a pass) AND denounced efforts to blame 9-11 on muslims... that the US government was somehow responsible.

A typical Stalinist moonbat of the worst sort, and a thug in the classroom full of poor students required to take her preposterous mandatory PC courses.

Official photo of this beast from Duke faculty pictures:

[beckett]

Kim Curtis is a graduate of San Francisco State University, one of the top three ulta-radical, ultra-leftwing schools in the nation, along with Antioch University in Ohio and Evergreen State College in Washington. She's a visiting assistant prof at 50, a very low rank for her age, and a recent arrival at Duke, which tends to suggest she's had poor evaluations as a teacher for her entire career.

KC Johnson, the brilliant Brooklyn College prof who's been blogging the case from the beginning, today read all three papers Dowd submitted for grade, and found the last one, which Curtis gave an 'F', to be the best of the three. He said he would've given it a B or a C.

There's more to the story. Apparently, Curtis was actively involved in suppressing a Duke student's account of harassment by a student at NCCC (North Carolina Community College, the school attended by the stripper). This was happening right about the time she was failing Dowd and another lacrosse player in her class. There's also quite a bit of internet posting by Curtis, some of it containing pretty controversial and strident points of view, that you can be sure Dowd's attorney saved to his own server long before the suit became public.

Unless Duke pays off quietly, the fireworks from this one should be interesting.

[Continental Soldier]

THE DUKE FANCY DANCING HAS BEGUN! The faculty that was willing to send innocent men to prison for their left-wing social agenda is now scurrying like rats to save their reputations from public rebuke. No matter what you do and say now, some of us will remember what you did and said then.

[BlazingArizona]

As one of my favorite authors, Kingsley Amis, once put it: "The reason why academic disputes are so bitter is that the stakes are so small!"

[madprof98]

Dowd's younger brother Craig was expected to enroll at Duke last fall on a lacrosse scholarship, but he turned it down and will enroll at Georgetown University this spring.

He'd be better off at Duke.