[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It's official, no sound thinking person would even consider sending their kid to Duke.

[kjo]

Is anyone nationally reporting the new Duke rape case? A young black man is accused of raping a white freshman a few days ago. Apparently in a bathroom during a party.

Aside from a short story on a rightwing blog I’ve seen nothing else anywhere. Maybe if the MSM doesn’t report it, it’s not news.

[gridlock]

If I were one of the 88 professors, I would take out a similarly sized advertisement and apologize. It is the only way out of this mess.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

This is yet another reason parents should stop putting their life savings into these left-wing, Marxist trash dumps posing as universities. Raise your child with values and then turn them over to brainwashers you pay dearly to spew bile?

Duke is just an example of all of them.

[Lorianne]

I wouldn’t have taken that deal.

[nyyankeefan]

wonder how the present and future alumni feel about their contributions being used to pay hush money by the duke adminsitration????

[patj]

"I'm not going to be intimidated into modulating speech," she said.

This woman is really too stupid to be teaching anything to anybody. She just escaped a lawsuit, which could have been quite expensive, and she talks like she's the victim. What an idiot.

[saganite]

So the scumbag profs walk? Isn’t that sweet.

[Lorianne]

I wouldn’t have taken that deal.

[anton]

Hahahahaha! Duke thinks the bad publicity would be only generated from a litigation? Did they notice the presence of the Internet these days? You can no longer stifle criticism in a national story by paying the plaintiffs.

Duke sucks. They were stupid in what the administration did to the coach, the team and the innocent players, they were stupid to buy the left wing faculty out of their problem and they are stupid to think that this is ended.

The only smart thing they did was to settle with the players fast. There will be no redemption for Duke.

[Joe Boucher]

That is one of my thoughts, the other being that I hope these kids and their families are well compensated far above whatever they had to put out to defend them.
As for the faculty members who joined the lynch mob? They deserve a beat down.

[School of Rational Thought]

What standing does the Duke have in relations to the Gang of 88?

Is this an admission that the 88 were acting in an official Duke role and not independently of Duke?

Any lawyers out there?

[HEY4QDEMS]

>>>”I don’t know if any faculty really felt any liability,” <<<

True, they’d have to have a conscience first.

[SkyPilot]

Good grief.

What a tragedy that these liberal demons get yet another free pass.

They Found 88 Problems, and the Dancer Was Just One

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

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)

Notice that very, very few (two?) of these professors teach the hard sciences or business.

They are mostly "McStudies" morons who aren't really scholars. They play dress up Professor.

The next time you have to shell out $50,000 per year per child, remember that your dollars have to pay for this foolishness at almost every single university in the US.

[SkyPilot]

Removing faculty members from any liability likely just made good sense, said McClain, who was not part of the legal discussions. "I don't know if any faculty really felt any liability," she said. "But in a very litigious society, anyone can sue for anything."

Pathetic!

It is the trial lawyers who file frivolous suits that in the back pocket of the Democrats. A Google search will show that shark lawyers are the biggest funders of Liberalism.

This was a case where these professors deserved to get their Birkenstocks sued off them.

They acted recklessly to destroy the lives of those young men.

They show no remorse.

This will happen again someday. Liberals cannot stop being evil.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

If the “Gang of 88” were let off the hook...I can only surmise that Duke paid these kids even more than I thought they already did. I expect it was a very substantial amount over and above their legal fees.

[joeystoy]

Nifong is suspended with pay?

That’s called a vacation!

[Paladin2]

"modulating speech"?

What the heck does that mean? FM or AM or spread spectrum?

[BoneShaker]

If it wasn’t a large multi-million dollar settlement Duke got off easy.
The downside is that none of the Gang Of 88 learned a darn thing or paid any kind of a personal price for their arrogance and rush to judgement.

[true_blue_texican]

"I'm not going to be intimidated into modulating speech," she said.

Huh???? "modulating" speech? Political Science professor = blithering idiot who can't get a real job.

[ByteMercenary]

I cannot believe that the family’s legal team would sell amnesty for the 88 for a few million up front. Unless they know that the combined assets of the 88 wouldn’t buy a used Volvo.

It has also been posted that the entire settlement would come from the Duke legal defense fund. Two thoughts: why does a university need 30-40+ million dollar cash stash? and why did the family legal beagles leave any money in that fund? The settlement should have been 10 times the cash available to Duke. If there is no (financial) pain involved in the punishment, there is no incentive to alter behavior.