[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.

[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.

[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.

[Lee'sGhost]

One stupid lib down, a whole college left to go.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

She is a racist who is upset that HER lynching party got derailed.

[visualops]

reflected Duke’s “commitment” to its Black students

Here's a novel idea: How about being committed to ALL your students?

[Savage Beast]

I know nothing about Dr. Holloway, and I have nothing to say about her, her policies, her opinions, or her actions.

However, in the interest of truth and justice, I, who am a Duke alumnus, have reserved judgment in this case. The Left in the U.S., as it has amply demonstrated time and again, obviously has no such interest in truth and justice and no intention of reserving judgment, on this or any other matter.

[YellowRoseofTx]

It sounds like she is upset and disappointed that the rich white boys didn't rape the poor black girl. She's a sore loser who didn't get her 15 minutes of fame playing the role of "healer".

[Polybius]

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.

There is nothing "ironic" about the criticism.

Individuals like Holloway are as racist as any Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan except that their racism is directed at whites.

[madprof98]

. . . Dr. Karla Holloway, the William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke . . .

This is a school where the kids take PC classes in such dubious subjects as "gender." Why would any parent pay to send their child to such a place?

[Red_Devil 232]

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.

She can dish it out but she can't take "criticism" of her action to deny the accused students the presumption of innocence.

Not only does she look like C. McKinney she has the same obnoxious and perpetual "I have been offended" attitude!

[EndWelfareToday]

“I could no longer work in good faith with this breach of common trust.”

Don’t let the door slap you in the *** on your way out female dog!

Since that time, though, the prosecutor’s case has all but fallen apart,

WHAT CASE?

a neighbor said he overheard the players slinging racial slurs at the dancer.

Yeah! Right! Even if true all Americans, including white ones, have their speech protected by the “1^st Amendment”

The administration “failed to recognize the racial dimensions of this and failed to address it quickly,”

Nooo….. the administration failed to allow themselves to be bullied by a small group of black racists hell bent on standing the Constitution and “Innocent until proven guilty” on it’s head. Much to the chagrin of many of these racists pigs in the black community we DO NOT live under a dictator or under Napoleonic law.

My hat is off to this administration for at least having the patience to not fully support this skank.

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.

No child I know wants to go to a University that suspends it’s students without a cause. It costs a lot of money to go to a University like Duke and to be forced to sit out because some drugged up, racist, gold digging whore claims they committed a crime against her is ludicrous. While I commend the administration for not jumping on Holloway’s bandwagon I criticize them for not supporting the athletes while the presumption of innocence should have applied.

Honestly folks. I’ve used this case as an example of why my children should refrain from defiling themselves by partaking in such licentiousness. Had the young men in question not attended the party they wouldn’t have opened themselves up to be accused.

JMHO

[DeFault User]

But regardless of what happens in the case, Duke is already feeling some chilling effects from the tide of negative publicity. Applications have dropped 3.3 percent since the scandal broke

3.3%? Not much, considering the lynch mob mentality of the administration, much of the faculty and the local DA. Some folks who can afford it may not want to lay out $40k a year and risk total financial ruin at the hands of the mob.

[LC HOGHEAD]

In America ,PROFESSOR, you are INNOCENT until proven guilty. The boys shouldnt have been expelled in the first place !!!!

[weezel]

This whole damn thing was just a typical demokkkrat doing what they do, using blacks to get elected. Thats ALL nifong was doing.

[OldFriend]

This person was the last person on earth to be on such a committee. Seems the University has a lot more problems than they're willing to address.

I would hope that no parent would even consider sending their son or daughter to such a place.

[r9etb]

“The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship,” says Dr. Karla Holloway, the William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke. “I could no longer work in good faith with this breach of common trust.”

As opposed to the decision by the university to suspend the players and to cancel the LAX team's season based on a case that now appears to have no basis in fact.

I see, Ms. Holloway. I see...

[oh8eleven]

Would someone please tell me why "Black" is capitalized as in "Holloway, who is Black" and "The accuser was a Black single mother" ... ?