Duke Fallout Continues as Top Black Professor Resigns From Race Committee

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

[Hatteras]

If she was serious, she should resign her faculty position, not just her seat on this ad hoc committee. C'mon, you GO GIRL!!!

[Mad Dawg]

Some body needs to get us this professorrette's email addy so we can educate her on the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.

[colonialhk]

No hypocrisy..........she is running the Sharpton campaign! Thus even when wrong you need to be right........
Remember Tawana aka Maryam Muhammad her new name.....sarc

[Kenton]

“The public support [the administration] has extended to these students has been absent in regard to faculty who have been under constant and often vicious attack,” she wrote.

Aw. what a disappointment. She's BLACK. She's entitled to be right, even when she's proven wrong!

If there were any justice in the world, this "gang of 80" would all be facing civil rights charges. They all, to a professor, seem to have forgotten the principle of "innocent until proven guilty", and they piled on these players like Ku Klux Klansmen on a sharecropper.

And to complain because the administration didn't behave as their "tower of strength" when they were proven to have slandered these players is laughable. In fact, I shall laugh right now. HA.

[Peach]

Good. So one less leftist at Duke.

[azhenfud]

"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."

So it doesn't matter the accuser and district attorney are lying whores, nor that the accused are innocent of the specific charges. Holloway's not fit to be on any sort of "race relations" committee since she'd prejudged the accused before the hidden exculpatory evidence was released by the lying scoundrel Nifong.

Duke is better off today.

[steelyourfaith]

The ongoing response of the Duke faculty and administration to this "rape" travesty continues to leave a BLACK MARK on the University's reputation .

[CFC__VRWC]

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

In any case, good riddance.

[OpusatFR]

"“We must work together to restore the fabric of mutual respect,” said Duke president Brodhead in a recent letter addressed to the Duke community. “One of the things I have most regretted is the way students and faculty have felt themselves disparaged and their views caricatured in ongoing debates.” "

Horselaugh....

A bunch of bigots, 88 of them to be precise, should not be given a pass.

The 88 should be called bigots. They are.

[VRWCmember]

The administration “failed to recognize the racial dimensions of this and failed to address it quickly,” wrote Duke political science professor Paula McClain in an article published in the summer of 2006.

What racial dimensions? The racism of the professors who went out to lynch the white lacrosse players?

[wideawake]

Applications have dropped 3.3 percent since the scandal broke, from 19,387 in 2006 to 18,495 in 2007. The university also received 20 percent fewer early decision applications this year compared to last year.

And that's where the rubber hits the road.

The other half of the equation is the question of how alumni contributions have fared since the scandal began.

[indcons]

No...only one less on a bizarre committee. The article doesn't say that she resigned from the univ.

[webheart]

If she is so incensed, she should resign her position at the University, not just the committee.

This committee thing is just too much work, and she needs time for herself. She's tired of the extra work, and so the best time to resign is now, when she can make quitting look like a principled act.

[alecqss]

Initially, many at Duke supported the dancer. Students held candlelight vigils on campus and 88 professors, now known as the “Group of 88” signed an advertisement in the student newspaper calling for the administration to take a stronger stand against the players.

"Now known as Group 88" - how ironic, as "88" usually a code word for a Nazi salute... Anyways, how persecuting w/o any proof of guilt and blatant disregard for presumption of innocence can improve anything, let alone black-white relations?

Quite contrary to that, Nifong's misconduct and a mob enthusiasm to persecute white guys no matter what soured race relations a lot.

[yankeedame]

Why is it that blacks can never be racists? I see this as a blatant case of racism.

The same reason why when man does it in the woods, it's "pollution", but when a bear does it in the woods it's not.

[BluH2o]

The accuser was a Black single mother, working her way through college at nearby North Carolina Central University, while the three defendants were all White and from wealthy families.

Working her way thru college? Yeah, as a stripper and pole dancer ... not quite the same as working in some entry level position in a more conventional and legitimate job capacity.

[RabidBartender]

since the university spent 10 years — from 1993 to 2003 — implementing it’s “Black Faculty Strategic Initiative.” The initiative doubled the number of Black professors, from 44 to 88, and poured millions into funding the Black studies program, which Holloway led for a time.

What a load of crap. This racist "teacher" shouldn't be drawing a paycheck.

[Red Badger]

..sharecropper...

Not all sharecroppers were black. Many were white. MY grandfather was one in his youth, circa 1890's........

[maggief]

Resigned from committee ... BFD.

[BenLurkin]

"...a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship..."

Typical professorial gobbledygook.

Half the clowns teaching college deserve to mocked out their jobs.