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.
There was quite a discussion yesterday on the last DUKELAX thread about why this woman is still a visiting professor after ten years.
"Thin" is the word I saw used to describe her CV -- and the explaination of why she's still there seems to involve some sort of "slot being filled," if I understood what I read from the people who know about stuff like that on that thread.
You are so right. I remember reading this; the complaint, buried amid the initial uproar of the "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" uprising.
And.. "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" is EXACTLY how this case has been run by Nifong. Bass-Ackward.