Posted on 05/02/2007 9:30:09 AM PDT by freespirited
The following is a paid ad placed in the Duke Chronicle yesterday by more than 1000 people.
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The following petition was endorsed by over 1,000 Duke Students along with recent graduates:
WHAT DOES A SOCIAL DISASTER SOUND LIKE?
On April 6th of last year a full page ad ran in The Chronicle signed by 88 professors and 16 academic programs and departments at Duke University. Weeks before any indictment was issued, in disregard for due process, our own professors projected guilt onto our peers on the lacrosse team. In the ad they not only tacitly supported the accusations of the now utterly discredited accuser, but praised protestors who similarly rushed to judgment, while levying baseless accusations of racism against our student body.
In a time of intense emotions and enormous stakes, when our community dearly needed a call for calm, for patience, for rational and careful thinking, these professors instead took a course of action which escalated tensions, spurred divisions along lines of race and class and brought our community into greater turmoil. Their actions also further undermined the legal process and most likely emboldened a rogue district attorney.
WE, THE STUDENTS OF DUKE UNIVERSITY, DEMAND AN APOLOGY FROM THE GROUP OF 88
As students who love Duke we are ashamed by the apparent decision of these faculty members to exploit a tragic situation to further their own political and social agendas. As an institution of higher learning we expect our professors to provide a model of intellectual integrity to which we can aspire—not to act with reckless disregard for fairness, justice and jurisprudence, and then callously refuse to make an apology or accept responsibility for their actions.
For those who would argue their ad has been mischaracterized we offer the following excerpts, which leave no doubt as to the material it contained—
“Students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman…”
“‘If something like this happened to me…what would be used against me—my clothing? Where I was?”’
“No one is really talking about how to keep this young woman herself central to this conversation, how to keep her humanity before us…”
“To the students speaking individually and to the protestors making collective noise, thank you for not waiting and for making yourselves heard.”
Some of the Group of 88 went even further in their ill-begotten rush to judgment. Some professors are alleged to have maligned lacrosse players in their courses; Professor Kim Curtis is alleged to have failed a student (with a 3.5 GPA) simply because he was a member of the team.
Other professors have made some truly shocking public statements, such as—
Prof. Houston Baker’s claim of “Young, white, violent, drunken men among us - implicitly boasted by our athletic directors and administrators - have injured lives,” and his remark that the lacrosse team “may well feel they can claim innocence and sport their disgraced jerseys on campus, safe under the cover of silent whiteness. But where is the black woman who their violence and raucous witness injured for life? Will she ever sleep well again?”
Prof. Mark Anthony Neal’s claim that, “”Regardless of what happened inside of 610 N. Buchanan Blvd, the young men were hoping to consume something that they felt that a black woman uniquely possessed.”
President Brodhead has yet to come forward and defend his students against the assaults launched by his own faculty.
WE CALL UPON PRESIDENT BRODHEAD TO FINALLY STAND UP FOR HIS STUDENTS
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
This is only the beginning for the Duke crowd of 88 nutty professors ... wait ‘till the lawsuits commence. Many worried sleepless nights ahead for these liberal vermin.
Nifong choked on the swimmers EWWW!! More than I want to know!
Sea, come check this out!
Hey Ti, long time no type. :-)
Pin Headed Dorks?
I think it's safe to feel a lot more 1000 students feel this way. Perhaps this is just the number of students who got together to create and fund the ad.
Works for me.
If you have been to Liestoppers blog. You will see the sign calling for the Castration of the Duke LaCrosse players. Feminists hate Men. They promote the Demonization of Male Attraction to Females. Feminism is at its roots today, a Lesbian Led movement. Men compete with Lesbians for attractive Female Partners.
This reality seems to elude the Press, and many Women. Cause Women to hate Men, and get them into the sack. Even Liberal Men are calling the Femifascists on their Duke LaCrosse hatred. And support of Janette Rivers aka. Crystal Gail Magnum . Worse yet VAWA encourages false accusations. It will have a chilling effect on the already frosty relations between the Genders.
Even Liberals Like Alec Baldwin have found out, that Men are fourth Class citizens in Divorce and Child Custody. His exwife has defied and violated 12 Court orders. Apparently she can do no wrong according to the Family Court Judge in the case.
How bad has it become? Today in the news is the story of the Woman in New Mexico who kidnapped a child for a Custody hearing. She got Child Support and benefits for two years for a Child that did not exist.
No. It's that truth and justice for individuals don't matter, because there is racism and oppression in the air. These people are a menace to civilization.
If it has a conservative,Republican, rich,white Christian penis, it was born unequivocally guilty. The death penalty.......
You know, the symbolic number of “88” would have a lot of effect if each faculty member who was a member of the “88” were referred to like that by Duke students from here on out. For example, instead of Prof. Mark Anthony Neal, he could be referred to as
“88” Prof. Mark Anthony Neal
Just use the tag “88” whenever mentioning those professors. I’m sure it wouldn’t bother them to have a constant lifelong reminder of who they have become.
After all, they didn’t mind smearing the 5 accused and proven innocent lacrosse players with a lifelong reminder, did they?
Bring it home to each of them, every day in the classrooms, and after work at their homes. Give them no rest. Make it intensely personal, and make them feel real fear.
No, actually they had requested white women to strip.
courtesy ping
Awesome!!!
Good to know that some people have courage. The “professeurs” and the administration don’t.
If it has a penis, it must be guilty of something.....
NO
If it has a white penis, it must be guilty of something.....
NOT QUITE
IF IT HAD A WHITE PENIS IT IS ABSOLUTELY GUILTY OF EVERYTHING!!!!!
NOW IT’S RIGHT!!
Those faculty members ought to be shamed into leaving.
Liberal idiocy needs to be publicly shamed at every opportunity. Liberals use shame to proclaim lies. Conservatives use shame to proclaim truth and accountability.
There should be sit ins in their offices until they apologize.
And if it’s a white Christian penis that smokes, not only is it guilty, but it’s got to stand out side in the winter.
HEAR! HEAR!
The faculty’s silence is, indeed, deafening.
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