[popdonnelly]

How was this professor's membership on the committee expected to improve black - white relations?

[justshutupandtakeit]

She needs to resign from the faculty for being an ahole. It certainly would not miss her or any of her type.

[2banana]

Holloway, who is Black, had agreed to head one of the four committees formed by Duke President Richard H. Brodhead late last spring. She says she’d hoped to improve the racial climate on campus after a Black exotic dancer accused members of Duke’s men’s lacrosse team of rape and racial slurs

...

Since that time, though, the prosecutor’s case has all but fallen apart, and public opinion has swung drastically in defense of the lacrosse players. Professors like Holloway — who had condemned the players — are now facing criticism for prematurely assuming the players’ guilt and, ironically, making racist charges against the White players.

What a great person to put in charge of a committee to "heal" race relations. Can we put the Grand Master of the KKK on another committee?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

If she is so incensed, she should resign her position at the University, not just the committee. Won't happen though.

[stylin19a]

in the guts of the article, it's not clear whether she just resigned from the committee or resigned from Duke.

If she feels that strongly, then she should resign from Duke.
If she just resigned from the committee, she's a hypocrite.

[AD from SpringBay]

Yowza yowza yowza - for 'Black Studies' professors, white is always guitly - evidence need not apply.

[w1andsodidwe]

“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.

Well your whining resignation should certainly increased the support for you.

To me the only faculty that deserves support is the coach who resigned. What in the world would engender public support to any other faculty member. But I guess she is just jealous or something. Sound like a "me, me, me" liberal whiner.

[Red Badger]

REVERSE RACISM!.....oops! Forgot! Blacks can't be racists!.......

[PGalt]

Typical cut-n-run collectivist.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Sounds good. At least they won't have to fire her.

Why would anyone pick a racist to run a committee to address racism anyway?

[msnimje]

Everybody knows if the accused were black they would have NEVER been kicked off the team or out of school due to "public pressure."

I guess Whitey is not privy to "presumed innocent until proven guilty" in Durham.

[mtbopfuyn]

She says she’d hoped to improve the racial climate on campus

Excuse me??? Fine, let the whiny baby take her prejudices and leave. The campus will be better off.

[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.

[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.

[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?