Posted on 03/25/2008 11:37:29 AM PDT by abb
As the founder and sole member of the Sheldon Award Society, I am dedicated to identifying the worst college president of each academic year. So far the presidents or chancellors of Berkeley, Georgetown, DePaul, and countless other universities have copped the Sheldon. Somewhat mysteriously, none offered to resign.
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The last of our three finalists is president of Duke, Richard Brodhead. Because Michael Nifong made himself such a spectacular villain in the lacrosse case, Mr. Brodhead escaped without much criticism. But here is what Mr. Brodhead did: On hearing the first reports, he abruptly canceled the lacrosse season, suspended the two players named in the case, and fired the lacrosse coach of 16 years, giving him less than a day to get out.
This helped create the impression that the players were guilty. His long letter to the campus on April 20 did the same thing. He didn't say the boys were guilty, but he talked passionately about the coercion and assault of women, the legacy of racism, and privilege and inequality — all of which fed the anger aimed at the lacrosse team.
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Like Mr. Brodhead, the Group of 88 did not quite call the players guilty, but praised the campus protestors for "shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman." No comment about that from Mr. Brodhead and no comment from him on Mr. Nifong for nine months. An engineering professor at Duke said, "There never was a clear sense that the students were innocent until proven guilty."
Congratulations Richard Brodhead, Sheldon laureate 2007. And you should resign.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
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Thanks for the ping...
readers comments below the article are interesting, also.
Resignation would be good...but if he were Japanese, he might take more aggressive action.
Brodhead worked hard for that award. It is well-deserved.
After all, what did he do wrong? All he did was take the default liberal position...
“Admiral Boorda...”
And the author was nice enough to include a reminder on the namesake of the award as well.
Governor Spitzer should also look up to the Admiral for the honorable way out...
I just realized that article was indeed from last year. Oh well, quality never goes out of style...
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