Duke media relations is unaware whether any of the "Group of 88" has apologized

duke univ ^ | 4-13-07 | dfu

[doug from upland]

After the rape allegations against three young men from the Duke lacrosse team, 88 professors, including 11 from the history department, signed a public statement that they were "listening" regarding the allegations. Their actions led to campus protestors putting up wanted posters of the young innocent men and branding the lacrosse team as rapists.

We all watched in amazement as Attorney General Cooper made a statement a few days ago that is almost unprecedented. He didn't say that there was not enough evidence in the case. He said that the young men were innocent.

A short time ago, I spoke with a specialist from the News and Communications Department at Duke University to see how many of the Group of 88 have issued a public apology. It didn't take her too long to count. Zero. That's right, as of this time, she was unaware that any of them have given a public apology.

Here are people whose feet must be held to the fire. Those most responsible for the wanted posters need to be publicly shamed, fired, and have their butts sued. Caning might be nice.

Abe, Stan (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies) stanley.abe@duke.edu 919.684.2487 F 919.684.4398

Albers, Benjamin (University Writing Program) albers@duke.edu 919.660.4371

Allison, Anne (Cultural Anthropology) anne.allison@duke.edu 919.681.6257 F 919.681.8483

Aravamudan, Srinivas (English) srinivas@duke.edu 919.684.2640

Baker, Houston (English and AAAS) houston.a.baker@vanderbilt.edu

Baker, Lee (Cultural Anthropology) ldbaker@duke.edu 919.681.3263 F 919.681.8483 http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/

Beaule, Christine cbeaule@duke.edu 919.660.7065

Beckwith, Sarah (English) ott@duke.edu 919.684.8705, 2741 F 919.684.4871

Berliner, Paul (Music) paul.berliner@duke.edu 919.660.3322

Blackmore, Connie (AAAS) connie.blackmore@duke.edu 919.684.2830, 5140 F 919 684 2832

Boa, Jessica (Religion & University Writing Program) ?

Boatwright, Mary T. (Classical Studies) tboat@duke.edu 919.684.3189 or 5076 F 919.681.4262

Boero, Silvia (Romance Studies) silvia.boero@duke.edu 919.660.3100

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (Sociology) 919.660.5618

Brim, Matthew (University Writing Program) matthew.brim@duke.edu 919.660.4381

Chafe, William (History) william.chafe@duke.edu 919.684.5436 F 919.681.7670

Ching, Leo (Asian & African Languages) lching@duke.edu 919.684.5240, 4309 F 919.681.7871

Coles, Rom (Political Science) coles@duke.edu 919.660.4310 F 919.660.4330

Cooke, Miriam (Asian & African Languages) mcw@duke.edu 919.684.2312, 4309 F 919.681.7871

Crichlow, Michaeline (AAAS) michaeline.crichlow@duke.edu 919.684.2830

Curtis, Kim (Political Science) kcurtis@duke.edu 919.660.4320 F 919.660.4300 http://www.duke.edu/~kcurtis/

Damasceno, Leslie (Romance Studies) ljhd@duke.edu 919.660.3100, 3120 F 919.684.4029

Davidson, Cathy (English) cathy.davidson@duke.edu 919.684.8472 F 919.668.1919

Deutsch, Sarah (History) sarah.deutsch@duke.edu 919.668.2746

Dorfman, Ariel (Literature & Latin American Stds.) adorfman@duke.edu 919.684.6432, 6054 F 919.684.8749

Edwards, Laura (History) l edwards@duke.edu 919.668.1435 F 919.681.7670

Farred, Grant (Literature) grant.farred@duke.edu 919.668.1754 F 919.684.3598

Fellin, Luciana (Romance Studies) fellin@duke.edu 919.660.3117

Fulkerson, Mary McClintock (Divinity School) mfulk@duke.edu 919.660.3400, 3458

Gabara, Esther (Romance Studies) egabara@duke.edu 919.660.3100, 3112

Gavins, Raymond (History) raymond.gavins@duke.edu 919.684.2508 F 919.681.7670

Greer, Meg (Romance Studies) mgreer@duke.edu

Glymph, Thavolia (History) thavolia@duke.edu 919.668.1625 http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/ faculty.html#Thavolia

Hardt, Michael (Literature) hardt@duke.edu 919.684.3408

Harris, Joseph (University Writing Program) joseph.harris@duke.edu http://www.duke.edu/~jdharris/

Holloway, Karla (English) karla.holloway@duke.edu 919.684.8993

Holsey, Bayo (AAAS) bayo.holsey@duke.edu 919.684.4067

Hovsepian, Mary (Sociology) ?

James, Sherman (Public Policy) sjames@duke.edu 919.613.9257

Kaplan, Alice (Literature) alice.kaplan@duke.edu 919.684.4228

Khalsa, Keval Kaur (Dance Program) keval.khalsa@duke.edu 919.660.3373

Khanna, Ranjana (English) rkhanna@duke.edu 919.668.2548 http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/WomensStudies/ secondary/rkhanna

King, Ashley (Romance Studies) aek2@duke.edu 919.660.3123

Koonz, Claudia (History) ckoonz@duke.edu 919.684.3941

Lasch, Peter (Art, Art History) pedro.lasch@duke.edu 919.684.3308 F 919.684.4398

Lee, Dan A. (Math) ?

Leighten, Pat (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)

919.660.6979 Fax 919.660.2821

Lentricchia, Frank (Literature) frll@duke.edu 919.684.6172

Light, Caroline (Inst. for Crit. U.S. Stds.) clight@duke.edu 919.668.1945

Litle, Marcy (Comparative Area Studies) marcy.litle@duke.edu 919.660.4353 F 919.684.8749

Litzinger, Ralph (Cultural Anthropology) rlitz@duke.edu 919.681.6250

Longino, Michele (Romance Studies) michele.longino@duke.edu 011.33.1.55.42.82.52 (France)

Lubiano, Wahneema (AAAS and Literature) wah@duke.edu 919.681.2843 http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/09/ nifongs-strange-bedfellows.html

Maffitt, Kenneth(History) kmaffitt@duke.edu 919.681.3982 F 919.681.7966

Mahn, Jason (University Writing Program) jmahn@duke.edu 919.660.4355, 4368

Makhulu, Anne-Maria (AAAS) annemaria.makhula@duke.edu

Mason, Lisa (Surgical Unit-2100) lbmason@duke.edu

McClain, Paula (Political Science) pmcclain@duke.edu 919.660.4303 http://www.duke.edu/~pmcclain/

Meintjes, Louise (Music) meintjes@duke.edu 919.660.3339

Mignolo, Walter (Literature and Romance Studies) wmignolo@acpub.duke.edu 919.668.1949, 2151 http://www.duke.edu/literature/www.duke.edu/ ~wmignolo

Moreiras, Alberto (Romance Studies) alberto.moreiras@duke.edu 919.668.1950

Neal, Mark Anthony (AAAS) man9@duke.edu 919.684.3987 http://newblackman.blogspot.com/

Nelson, Diane (Cultural Anthropology) dmnelson@duke.edu 919.684.2069

Olcott, Jolie (History) olcott@duke.edu

Parades, Liliana (Romance Studies) lparedes@duke.edu 919.660.3124

Payne, Charles (AAAS and History) cmpayne@duke.edu 919.684.5764 http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/index.html

Pierce-Baker, Charlotte (Women’s Studies) cpierceb@duke.edu 919.684.5683

Pebles-Wilkins, Wilma ?

Petters, Arlie (Math) petters@math.duke.edu 919.660.2812 F 919.660.2821

Plesser, Ronen (Physics) plesser@cgtp.duke.edu 919.660.9668 F 919.660.2525 http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~plesser/

Radway, Jan (Literature) ?

Rankin, Tom (Ctr for Documentary Studies) tsr2@duke.edu http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/tsr2

Rego, Marcia (University Writing Program) marcia.rego@duke.edu

Reisinger, Deborah S. (Romance Studies) debsreis@duke.edu 919.660.8435

Rosenberg, Alex (Philosophy) alexrose@duke.edu 919.660.3047, 3050 http://www.duke.edu/~alexrose

Rudy, Kathy (Women’s Studies) krudy@acpub.duke.edu 919.684.4063

Schachter, Marc (English) marc.schachter@duke.edu 919.660.2421

Shannon, Laurie (English) lshannon@duke.edu 919.684.2741

Sigal, Pete (History) peter.sigal@duke.edu 919.684.3551

Silverblatt, Irene (Cultural Anthropology) isilver@duke.edu 919.684.3516

Somerset, Fiona (English) somerset@duke.edu 919.684.5275

Stein, Rebecca (Cultural Anthropology) rlstein@duke.edu 919.684.5611

Thorne, Susan (History) sthorne@duke.edu 919.684.8945

Viego, Antonio (Literature) antonioviego@yahoo.com 919.668.2687 duke.edu/womstud/~aviego

Vilaros, Teresa (Romance Studies) teresa.vilaros@duke.edu 919.660.3108

Wald, Priscilla (English) pwald@duke.edu 919.684.6869

Wallace, Maurice (English and AAAS) mwallace@duke.edu 919.684.3939

Wong, David (Philosophy) dbwong@duke.edu 919.660.3046

[Red Badger]

I doubt whether any of the “professors” would ever even entertain the thought of an apology, private or public. As one liberal pundit/blogger wrote “They must be guilty of something.”.........

[tcrlaf]

Why should they apologize?

In thier minds, they are WHITE, MALE ATHELETES, so if they hadn’t raped anyone YET, they would soon, anyway....

Don’t you just love LibWorld?

[trimom]

Can someone tell me what AAAS and Romance Studies are?

See, my kids majored in things that get you jobs, like biology and economics and business and silly things like that.

[The Blitherer]

See, all of us ignant hicks just don’t get the point. The boys ARE guilty because they’re part of the elite, white, chauvinist ruling class that oppresses minorities and women and forces them to resort to rape allegations in order to survive.

[Ken522]

I don’t see too many math or engineering professors on that list .....

[Welsh Rabbit]

That’s the beauty of being a liberal. You never have to admit you were wrong, no matter what evidence comes up later. After all, it’s all about your feelings at the time, and feelings are never wrong...

[cripplecreek]

That’s the liberal way. No matter how tightly you’re caught, never EVER admit you were wrong.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

*crickets*

[Scarchin]

88 targets for a lawsuit?

Is a lawyer somewhere drowning in drool?

[freespirited]

I’ll take a WAG that AAAS is African and African-American Studies.

If you tell me the S stands for Sciences I am going to puke.

[doug from upland]

GREAT INFO HERE

[HawaiianGecko]

Can someone tell me what AAAS and Romance Studies are?

If have no idea on AAAS, but Romance Studies probably include Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights.

[LWalk18]

Romance Studies regard the Romance Languages- Spanish, French, and Italian.

[canuck_conservative]

All Arts teachers (touchy-feely subjects).

Not one science professor (deals with objective facts).

What a shocker.

[massgopguy]

Attention all White Duke students. You Faculty holds you in contempt.

[chimera]

They won’t apologize. I’ll hazard a guess that they’ll come out with a statement along the lines of “Our purpose was to spark a debate about the larger issues of violence against persons of color, which is a problem that still remains...”, blah blah blah. One thing liberals never, ever do is apologize for anything.

That is, anything that they do. They're hell on wheels when it comes to apologizing on behalf of other people, especially people they don't know, for things that those people haven't done (e.g., slavery).

[JZelle]

Romance Studies may help one become a ho.

[TheMole]

According to KC Johnson (who puts out the Durham-in-Wonderland blog) one of them, math professor Arlie Petters, has apologized. He did so a few months ago, and his apology is why you might sometimes see the group referred to as the Group of 87.

[San Jacinto]

AAAS is “America is Always Awful, Stupid” and Romance Studies is a sub-category of “Gay, Lesbian, Trans-gendered Minorities’ Literary/Societal Accomplishments from the Great Revolution to the McCarthy Era”.