Duke Fallout Continues as Top Black Professor Resigns From Race Committee

Diverse Issues in Higher Education ^ | January 10, 2007 | Christina Asquith

[Guilty by Association]

Repeat (sorry) post from the tail end of the last thread, re: http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/s...gepublisher.com

Shadee Malaklou's "piece" is all that and more, albeit a piece "of $hit" being the more. "Slim" Shadee is unable to see the world through anything other than the ebony-colored glasses her column so clearly illustrates.

I attended Duke twice: once each in the 80s and 90s. I was a Varsity athlete, and can assure you that I failed to witness women "throw themselves so ardently at men" (much to my dismay at having missed out on the supposed phenomenon).

Either the campus culture has (d)evolved, or I simply ran with the wrong (or right) crowds. My guess is that what Ms. Malaklou describes is, for the most part, a characteristic of the "self-segrated" demographic.

[JLS]

So are we now down to the Gang of 87 at Duke?

I think she is still there. We are down to at most 86 of the gangsters at Duke still as Mr. and Mrs. Baker left for Nashville. Other gangsters may have left too, but I have not checked that out.

[Red Badger]

Perhaps I should use the "/s" more often.........

[abb]

The judge presiding over the Duke University lacrosse case has ordered a paternity test to be administered on the accuser's child.
The order, filed today by Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III, appears to confirm reports that the woman had a child. In a December hearing, lawyers for three former Duke lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting the woman requested the paternity test to show the child was not fathered by the players.

District Attorney Mike Nifong said in the hearing last month that he didn't believe the child had any connection to the lacrosse players, but the judge ordered anyway that a test be performed when the child was born.

In another order, Smith directed that transcripts of a closed hearing be provided to the lawyers in the case. In that closed hearing in December, the lawyers and the judge discussed sealed records.

The lacrosse players maintain their innocence and say the accusations are lies.

The case is next scheduled for a court hearing in February

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/530882.html

[Repub4bush]

Do we have the name of the Fiance yet?

My GPD friends won't tell me, because they think I will post it here. They also won't tell me how this arrest came about, for the same reason!! They know me too well) :)

[JLS]

The drop in enrollment is probably accompanied by a drop in quality of applicants as some people who previously did not think they could get in are taking a shot at applying to Duke. Someone on one of our threads said her student's high school advisor told them it would be a good year to apply to Duke.

[Howlin]

You know, I think I read that name on here or somewhere yesterday, but I cannot remember the name or where I saw it.

Maybe somebody will be along to tell us.

[Crawdad]

Jermeir Stroud was the fiancee.

[Repub4bush]

Thanks! I was wondering if I knew him, but I don't.

I wonder how long he has been on the force? Does it tell that anywhere?

[Crawdad]

I read somewhere 4 years on the force. He was also, the president of the NCCU chapter of the NAACP when he was there.

[OldFriend]

The lies continue unabated. She had a baby in December, she had a baby in January.

Seems there is nothing but lies in this case.

[abb]

http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=1370&st=0&#entry7361244

Per ABC News' Lara Setrakian, who is in town working on a story to air after the case ends: Defense attorneys are expected to file a motion before next Thursday asking for sanctions against Nifong. Sanctions requested will include contempt of court, payment of attorney's fee (relative to costs of discovering the withheld DNA test results), and removal from the case.

[Alia]

Another article by Asquith in re Karla Holloway, she was going to "quit" three months after she was hired; and so I guess this latest "quit" is being used as an excuse to justify the "quitting":

Black Professors Under Pressure At Duke; Six Black Faculty Quit
By Christina Asquith
Jun 13, 2006, 08:14

Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway threatened to quit yesterday citing exhaustion.

“I’m working on a culture initiative when I should be doing research,” says Holloway. “Of course you want a chance to make your campus better, but at what cost? When you are serviced to fix the problem and you are also the victim; it’s a double duty.”

By the end of Monday, Holloway had met with colleagues and reluctantly decided to stay on as committee head. But her frustration raises questions as to whether there is too much pressure on Black faculty at Duke to respond to the March crisis, in which a Black exotic dancer accused members of Duke’s lacrosse team of rape and racial slurs — prompting nationwide accusations of racism against the university.

“It’s true,” says Duke provost Peter Lange about the burden placed on Black faculty. “If you have a small number of African-American faculty, and a crisis emerges of the kind that emerged here in March in which African-American students seek support from African-American faculty members, and in addition the institution needs input from African-American faculty, then the burden on them shoots way up.”

Since the March incident, six Black faculty members have departed the university, most notably Dr. Charlotte Pierce-Baker, a professor of women’s studies, and her husband Dr. Houston Baker, a professor of African-American literature. Both left for Vanderbilt University.

All six professors say they left for personal reasons, and many had already made plans to leave before the March incident. However, the timing has led some to question whether an exodus is afoot.

“If these people start to leave, it creates all kinds of concerns for those of us who are left,” Dr. Kerry Haynie, a professor of political science who was recruited to Duke from Rutgers University in 2003, told The News & Observer last week. This year, Haynie has served on seven committees, including one on the culture of the lacrosse program.

...
Spending on retention efforts of Black faculty has more than doubled from $700,000 in 2003 to $1.6 million today, he adds.

Nonetheless, the loss of six Black professors is particularly painful given that the university recently finished an extremely successful decade-long initiative to build up its Black faculty. From 1993 to 2003, the university doubled its Black staff to 88 by offering financial incentives and generous research opportunities.

However, when the race initiative ended in 2003, it was replaced by a “diversity” initiative, says Holloway; and that was when Blacks “fell off the radar”.

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In response to the charges associated with the lacrosse case, the university formed four committees — race, gender, alcohol and athletics — which meet weekly and report to Duke President Richard Brodhead. The committees will continue to meet throughout the summer.

Holloway says she decided to stay on the committee after she was convinced that it would have more of a voice with her participation.

However, Holloway says her patience is being tried.

[Howlin]

Yes, that's what I read! Gosh, collectively we remember everything, don't we?

I wish you all were in my real life.........LOL.

[Howlin]

Well, it's coming full force now, isn't it? Like a tidal wave.

payment of attorney's fee (relative to costs of discovering the withheld DNA test results),

That could be virtually everything since the day they were hired!

Joe Cheshire wasn't kidding when he said that they were going to pursue each and every person and event, was he?

[Guilty by Association]

"...does anyone know if the quality (e.g. SAT scores) of the Duke applicant pool has changed?"

We will be able to infer that from the statistics Duke will publish regarding the class it eventually enrolls. I would bet my bottom dollar that it will show a marked decline.

[Ready4Freddy]

Judge Smith's Order in December was a Contingent Order (contigent upon a baby being born). This new Order tells us that the birth has indeed happened, otherwise Ozzie wouldn't be signing it.

[abb]

Joe Cheshire wasn't kidding when he said that they were going to pursue each and every person and event, was he?

"Today we settle all family business..."

[OldFriend]

To what end a paternity test when the baby could clearly not have been parented by any of the defendents in this case.

Do the authorities have DNA samples from the New Black Panthers.

[Enterprise]

"The Duke University professor heading a university-appointed committee to investigate race relations on campus in the wake of last spring’s men’s lacrosse scandal has resigned from that committee in protest against the recent decision to invite two of the players back on to campus."

Well then, adios FOOL!