[SkyPilot]

Just who are the "Gang of 88?"

Good question.

If anyone has the full list of the 88 "professors" from Duke who contributed to the lynch mob justice of DA Nifong, please post them here.

I'll start with Diane Nelson, associate professor of cultural anthropology (whatever that means), who was mentioned in the above article.

_{Diane M Nelson, Associated
Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology}

Today's NY Post has a very small blurb that says the North Carolina special prosecutor is denying news leaks they will soon drop all charges against the three young men in the Duke case.

I am not surprised.

They know that those charges are the only thing stopping a wave of law suits against Durham, Duke University, former DA Nifong, Crystal Magnum (the accuser), Kim Roberts (second dancer), the Durham Police, and so many others.

Today;s NY Post also has an article by John Podhoretz titled DUKE: WHO WON'T PAY

In it, he says the Gang of 88 will be protected and won't be punished.

They should not get off this easy.

[SkyPilot]

Howlin, can you ping your list?

[edcoil]

"Just who are the "Gang of 88?"

They are a hate group that reserves it hate for their fellow Americans and everyone else gets a pass.

[Redbob]

THIS is the story of self-righteousness...

[true_blue_texican]

Is that a girl in that pic? Looks like a drunk-@ss freshman fool (guy that is).

[kalee]

"I, for one, did not think"

Mr Baker should have stopped right there, because that says it all; he and the other 87 didn't think.

[randog]

Sounds like a whole lotta backpedalin' goin' on. That's OK; they can explain it to the Duke board of trustees when the accused drop multi-million dollar lawsuits in their laps.

[HamiltonJay]

I, for one, did not think through all of the unintended consequences

No, You didn't, in fact you didn't THINK at all... you "REACTED" and reacted to what you WANTED and ASSUMED to be true, not what was true, because your world view is so vested in American and White Wealth as the enemy and black as the perpetual victim, that you could not remotely imagine that anything but that could be true.

Liberals are some of the most racist people on the planet, but are completely unable to recognize it about themselves.

[pabianice]

Welcome to the world of 'Feminist Anthropology,' as corrupt and man-hating as any philosophy to drop from modern feminism. One tenet is that all sexual relations between men and women a rape.

[AD from SpringBay]

Those same 88 should be just as quick to write a second letter, one apologizing for their rush to judgement before a trial. They should apologize for overturning the idea of, 'innocent until proven guilty.' Diversity should no longer be a free ticket to override the principals set forth by this nation's founders.

[goodwithagun]

What a crock of s***! Those boys were persecuted because they are white males! Those boys should sue the whole lot. Even if they didn't get a dime from them, the boys should at least make their lives a living hell. Put the 88 though what those boys went through.

Further more, parents of white male Duke student athletes should pull their kids out of that university and enroll them somewhere else. What would that say to the powers that be?

[FlipWilson]

Quote: "Just who are the "Gang of 88?"

They are any college faculty USA.

[FreedomPoster]

I have the pdfs of the original ad, plus the list of the 88, that I downloaded from a duke.edu server last Spring. From the department of African Studies, or some such.

FReepmail me your email, I'd be glad to send them to you, if someone doesn't have them hosted somewhere, and you want them.

Here's the list, cut'n'pasted from that.

Abe, Stan (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
Albers, Benjamin (University Writing Program)
Allison, Anne (Cultural Anthropology)
Aravamudan, Srinivas (English)
Baker, Houston (English and AAAS)
Baker, Lee (Cultural Anthropology)
Beckwith, Sarah (English)
Berliner, Paul (Music)
Christina Beaule (University Writing Program)
Blackmore, Connie (AAAS)
Jessica Boa (Religion & University Writing Program)
Boatwright, Mary T. (Classical Studies)
Boero, Silvia (Romance Studies)
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (Sociology)
Brim, Matthew (University Writing Program)
Chafe, William (History)
Ching, Leo (Asian & African Languages and Literatures)
Coles, Rom (Political Science)
Cooke, Miriam (Asian & African Languages and Literatures)
Crichlow, Michaeline (AAAS)
Curtis, Kim (Political Science)
Damasceno, Leslie (Romance Studies)
Davidson, Cathy (English)
Deutsch, Sally (History)
Dorfman, Ariel (Literature & Latin American Stds.)
Edwards, Laura (History)
Farred, Grant (Literature)
Fellini, Luciana (Romance Studies)
Fulkerson, Mary McClintock (Divinity School)
Gabara, Esther (Romance Studies)
Gavins, Raymond (History)
Greer, Meg (Romance Studies)
Glymph, Thavolia (History)
Hardt, Michael (Literature)
Harris, Joseph (University Writing Program)
Holloway, Karla (English)
Holsey, Bayo (AAAS)
Hovsepian, Mary (Sociology)
James, Sherman (Public Policy)
Kaplan, Alice (Literature)
Khalsa, Keval Kaur (Dance Program)
Khanna, Ranjana (English)
King, Ashley (Romance Studies)
Koonz, Claudia (History)
Lasch, Peter (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies & Latino/a Studies)
Lee, Dan A. (Math)
Leighten, Pat (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
Lentricchia, Frank (Literature)
Light, Caroline (Inst. for Crit. U.S. Stds.)
Litle, Marcy (Comparative Area Studies)
Litzinger, Ralph (Cultural Anthropology)
Longino, Michele (Romance Studies)
Lubiano, Wahneema (AAAS and Literature)
Maffitt, Kenneth(History)
Mahn, Jason (University Writing Program)
Makhulu, Anne-Maria (AAAS)
Mason, Lisa (Surgical Unit-2100)
McClain, Paula (Political Science)
Meintjes, Louise (Music)
Mignolo, Walter (Literature and Romance Studies)
Moreiras, Alberto (Romance Studies)
Neal, Mark Anthony (AAAS)
Nelson, Diane (Cultural Anthropology)
Olcott, Jolie (History)
Parades, Liliana (Romance Studies)
Payne, Charles (AAAS and History)
Pierce-Baker, Charlotte (Women’s Studies)
Pebles-Wilkins, Wilma
Petters, Arlie (Math)
Plesser, Ronen (Physics)
Radway, Jan (Literature)
Rankin, Tom (Center for Documentary Studies)
Rego, Marcia (University Writing Program)
Reisinger, Deborah S. (Romance Studies)
Rosenberg, Alex (Philosophy)
Rudy, Kathy (Women’s Studies)
Schachter, Marc (English)
Shannon, Laurie (English)
Sigal, Pete (History)
Silverblatt, Irene (Cultural Anthropology)
Somerset, Fiona (English)
Stein, Rebecca (Cultural Anthropology)
Thorne, Susan (History)
Viego, Antonio (Literature)
Vilaros, Teresa (Romance Studies)
Wald, Priscilla (English)
Wallace, Maurice (English and AAAS)
Wong, David (Philosophy)

[GOPJ]

Liberals look in the mirror and see the "lynch mob mentality" they supposedly stand against.

Hypocrites exposed ... what a hoot.

[goodwithagun]

I had to take a women's poetry class in college. I did not want to, but it was the only class that fit into my schedule and I just wanted to graduate. This woman(?) reminds me of the professor. I was criticized by her for referring to the man I was dating as my "boyfriend." She corrected me by saying, "Don't you mean your partner?" My reply was that he was not my partner, we did not have any legal agreements with each other. I married the man a couple years later. Sometimes we jokingly refer to each other as a partner just to make fun of the professor, and other twits like her.

[bboop]

That 'woman' -- and I use the word loosely -- I sure wouldn't pay to teach my kid. "We didn't think of the consequences." DUH. Some lame excuse. I'd love to see real justice in this.

[Fresh Wind]

Here's the list:

http://crystalmess.blogspot.com/2006/09/dear-cowards.html

[Sue Perkick]

What the.......

[azhenfud]

"I had not had my coffee, and the sun was in my eyes. Once I sort of woke up and figured out what was really going on, I said repeatedly that we did not rush to judgment and presumed that they were innocent?. They only aired me mumbling something unintelligible."

---

Once again caught putting the mouth in gear with a dysfunctional cerebral alignment.

[stylin19a]

Concerned Faculty
The following members of the Duke faculty have signed the Open Letter to the Duke Community, posted here.

Stan Abe
Benjamin Albers
Anne Allison
Srinivas Aravamudan
Lee Baker
Sarah Beckwith
Paul Berliner
Tolly Boatwright
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Jack Bookman
Matt Brim
Bill Chafe
Leo Ching
Elizabeth Clark
Rom Coles
Michaeline A. Crichlow
Kim Curtis
Roberto Dainotto
Leslie Damasceno
Ariel Dorfman
Laura Edwards
Grant Farred
Jeffrey Forbes
Mary M. Fulkerson
Erin Gayton
Jehanne Gheith
Margaret Greer
Michael Hardt
Erik Harms
Joe Harris
Kerry Haynie
Karla Holloway
Bayo Holsey
Mary Hovsepian
Sherman James
Alice Kaplan
Keval Khalsa
Ranjana Khanna
Fred Klaits
Claudia Koonz
Robert Korstad
Pedro Lasch
Caroline Light
Marcy Litle
Ralph Litzinger
Michele Longino
Wahneema Lubiano
Anne-Maria Makhulu
Tamera Marko
Paula McClain
Louise Meintjes
Sean Metzger
Walter Mignolo
Alberto Moreiras
Cary Moskovitz
Mark Anthony Neal
David Need
Diane Nelson
Jocelyn Olcott
Charles Payne
Charlie Piot
Ronen Plesser
Maureen Quilligan
Jan Radway
Tom Rankin
Marcia Rego
William Reichert
Deb Reisinger
Alex Rosenberg
Marc Schachter
Stephanie Sieburth
Laurie Shannon
Pete Sigal
Irene Silverblatt
Joshua Socolar
Kristin Solli
Helen Solterer
Fiona Somerset
Roxanne Springer
Rebecca Stein
Kenneth Surin
Susan Thorne
John Transue
Maurice Wallace
Priscilla Wald
Kathryn Whetten
Robyn Wiegman
David Wong
Tomiko Yoda

[HEY4QDEMS]

"When you take a political stance, this is what happens sometimes-people resist that,"

So let me get this straight, falsely accusing and vilifying three innocent people is a "political stand".

Gee, I wonder what party she's a member of? /s