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.
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.
It could be. Certainly there are quite a number of egregious professors at Duke in the humanities. I know a few of them. I just can't believe there wasn't somebody better than this jerk, but maybe you're right.