[Reaganesque]

A little CYA from the President of Duke University. He knows he's on the hook, along with 88 members of his faculty, in the pending civil suit. Time to make nice. It's a day late and a dollar short, if you ask me.

[Niteranger68]

"From the outset, I have been careful to note that these students were entitled to the presumption of innocence and I looked to the legal system to determine the merit of the charges."

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go." - Cromwell

[popdonnelly]

The finding that these students were innocent means nothing to the leftist race pimps. You’re still guilty, even if proven innocent.

[Erasmus]

Allow me to write a headline for the New York Sun, April 21, 2007:

"LaCrosse Players To University: Put Up Your Dukes!"

[lawdude]

Tell all this BS to the Lacrosse Coach!

[Tallguy]

Didn’t exactly “cover yourself with glory” during this ugly incident did you Mr. Brodhead?

[ZULU]

“From the outset, I have been careful to note that these students were entitled to the presumption of innocence and I looked to the legal system to determine the merit of the charges. Now, finally, that process has given us a decision based on a thorough and objective review of the evidence. This is what we have all needed from the start.”

TRANSLATION: “My attorney advised me to release this statement in an attempt to protect my worthless @$$ against inevitable litigation.”

[Chena]

You’ve got that right. He’s covering his ass and those of his ASSociates. Good Lord willing, he’ll soon be referred to as the EX-President of Duke University.

[fooman]

Bonehead is a jerk. If he really believed in due process, he would not have made defamatory statements at the beginning.

Nor would he have suspended the students.

$10 million in fines.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I guess it was an oversight that Brodhead forgot to mention this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/education/09duke.html?ex=1304827200&en=4545a9ff0cac9bb4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[ken5050]

The Dookies mens and womens BB teams are cursed as a result. They will never win another NCAA title until all the Duke professors who signed that infamous letter are all gone from the campus..

[.cnI redruM]

He very carefully stayed on the fence. So carefully that 88 of his faculty members made his university look like a tribal dung heap. Pathetic!

[prairiebreeze]

So he fired the coach and kicked two of the boys out of the university because they should be presumed innocent.

Liar.

[Wuli]

The Duke alumni organization should solicit some of the largest contributors to Duke’s endowments and together demand the Duke President and ALL 88 biased members of the faculty resign affective immediately.

[Dante3]

A wimpy message.

As other posters have said, Richard H. Brodhead was active in condemning the three lacrosse players by his actions, including canceling the entire lacrosse season and firing the coach and thus sending a message of guilt.

Brodhead needs to be fired. There is enough evidence to support charges of incompetence against him.

[Dante3]

As other posters have said, Richard H. Brodhead was active in condemning the three lacrosse players by his actions, including cancelling the entire lacrosse season and firing the coach and thus sending a message of guilt.

[azhenfud]

"From the outset, I have been careful to note that these students were entitled to the presumption of innocence and I looked to the legal system to determine the merit of the charges."

I will go out on a language limb here: BULLSHIT.

He cancelled the LaCross team and fired the coach. How much more guilty could he have legally demonstrated he thought they were short of having a gallows built on campus - which he almost became instrumental in that's accomplishment?

Broadhead is a liar.

[The Great RJ]

This is utter hypocrisy. Broadhead dismissed two of the accused students without conviction of any crime and with 88 of his faculty convicted the three students in a kangaroo court of popular opinion. He should resign or be fired for his actions. I hope the the accused students sue Duke for millions for character defamation and wrongful termination from the University. The 88 professors should be mandated to make a public apology for their false accusations or be fired if they don’t.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So the 88 faculty members will now be charged with racist hate crimes, and be suspended without pay for a year while they fight to be re-instated in the courts?

[Scarchin]

Resign NOW and fire any faculty member who signed the statement and doesn't apologize.

Compare this to Imus situation!

[McGavin999]

So, where’s the apology to the young men and to the coach that was fired? Where is the demand that the 88 who are employed by the university apologize quickly and PUBLICALLY (preferably while on their knees in front of the 3 with tV cameras rolling)