[rabidralph]

Professors like Holloway — who had condemned the players — are now facing criticism for prematurely assuming the players’ guilt and, ironically predictably, making racist charges against the White players.

[jackieaxe]

Obviously, this guy does not want to be confused with the facts. In his mind, these "animals" raped this poor working single mom student and it was a racial incident. I thought Duke was smarter than this and didn't employ morons.

[jackieaxe]

Obviously, this gal does not want to be confused with the facts. In his mind, these "animals" raped this poor working single mom student and it was a racial incident. I thought Duke was smarter than this and didn't employ morons.

[okie01]

“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.

Dr. Holloway, do you not understand that you and the faculty hasn't received public support because they don't deserve it?

[TBBBO]

From Durham in Wonderland (http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/):

Holloway Leaves CCI
Karla Holloway has resigned her position as race subgroup chair of the Campus Culture Initiative, to protest President Brodhead’s decision to lift the suspensions of Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty. “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,” said she. “I could no longer work in good faith with this breach of common trust.”

Holloway had not always been so concerned with the significance of “judicial decision[s] on the case.” This summer, she wrote that “justice inevitably has an attendant social construction. And this parallelism means that despite what may be our desire, the seriousness of the matter cannot be finally or fully adjudicated in the courts.” Therefore, since the presumption of innocence “is neither the critical social indicator of the event, nor the final measure of its cultural facts,” judgments about the case “cannot be left to the courtroom.”

Holloway’s departure from the CCI is a welcome development. Holloway’s comments over the last nine months had shown little or no respect for a wide variety of groups on campus, and so her occupying such a prominent place with the CCI seemed a basic contradiction in its mission.

Male athletes? “The ‘culture’ of sports seems for some a reasonable displacement for the cultures of moral conduct, ethical citizenship and personal integrity,” reinforcing “exactly those behaviors of entitlement which have been and can be so abusive to women and girls and those ‘othered’ by their sports’ history of membership.”
Those who defended the players targeted by Nifong? They believed that “white innocence means black guilt. Men’s innocence means women’s guilt.”
Women’s lacrosse players who had worn armbands expressing sympathy with Seligmann, Finnerty, and Dave Evans? She denounced their “team-inspired and morally slender protestations of loyalty that brought the ethic from the field of play onto the field of legal and cultural and gendered battle as well.”
The sympathetic article announcing Holloway’s resignation from the CCI came in a publication called Diverse Online. Here’s how its author, Christina Asquith, described the scene last spring. “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.”

Apparently Asquith didn’t receive the memo on the new party line regarding the Group of 88’s intentions.

Labels: faculty

[N. Theknow]

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...

All this was done based on the "content of character" litmus test espoused by the Great Extortionist himself.

[happygrl]

By 2006, the Black studies program ought to have been stronger than ever, since the university spent 10 years — from 1993 to 2003 — implementing it’s “Black Faculty Strategic Initiative.”

The simplest grammatical error: it's instead of its.

Not surprising in a publication entitled "Diversity Online."

[Sue Perkick]

In her resignation letter, Holloway criticized the Duke administration for not coming to her defense

LOL

[JWinNC]

So she wanted the Duke administration to come to her defense (regarding the allegations against her) but she would withhold the same from the Lacrosse players?

I see.

[mewzilla]

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Duke students...

[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.

[relictele]

Let's ignore the case, the races and the school for a moment....at its essence it's simply another example of a liberal not getting his/her own way, stomping off while screaming "I Quit!" So mature.........

[Lancey Howard]

...has resigned from that committee in protest against the recent decision to invite two of the players back on to campus.

Har! I saw the thread title and figured somebody had resigned in shame! Silly me.
No surprise, though, coming from this "guilty until proved innocent" scumbag, Holloway.

[Eva]

Could this possibly be the teacher that is being sued by a member of the lacrosse team for giving him a failing grade for no reason other than being a member of the team. The grade was raised to a D, but the kid had been earning a C until the incident of the alleged rape.

Anyway, even if she is not the same teacher, she's leaving ahead of law suits. These teachers that signed that anti-lacrosse team statement still don't get it that the white boys were the victim of reverse discrimination.

[mrmargaritaville]

To that professor:

"Door . . . Ass. . . you know the drill"

[MHT]

In the battle between the pursuit of truth (the mission of the university) and the black political agenda, guess this guy was more committed to being a poster boy for misguided shills of the Democrat party than the higher cause for which is was, theoretically, educated.

[TBBBO]

The LA Times had an op-ed piece on Sunday that spoofed people like Holloway and the courses they teach. An excerpt follows. Note the reference to Duke. The full column is at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-allen7jan07,0,4948945.story?coll=la-sunday-commentary.

I got an A in Phallus 101
The list of the 12 most bizarre college courses in the U.S. includes offerings such as 'The Phallus' and 'Queer Musicology.'
By Charlotte Allen, Charlotte Allen is an editor at Beliefnet and the author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus."
January 7, 2007

THE "DIRTY DOZEN" list of "America's Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses" is out — and Los Angeles-area institutions of higher learning have walked away with one-fourth of the ranked honors (or dishonors). Occidental College, an 1,800-student liberal arts school in Eagle Rock, is the only college on the list to collect not one but two citations for excellence at offering trendy theories of gender, skin color and white-male oppression at the expense of actual academic content.

UCLA didn't fare badly either, with one citation. And believe me, the competition was stiff. The Southern California colleges were competing against such nationally recognized PC heavyweights as Cornell, Amherst, the University of Michigan and, of course, Duke.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"Top Black Professor Resigns From Race Committee.."

Why doesn't she RESIGN period! She won't want to lose the high paying secure platform for bogus outrage outrage.

I wonder if this one is in the local Jury pool? If this does go to trial there a conviction is still possible.

[The KG9 Kid]

I just read some of the professor's writings. It's confusing to me because it frequently uses terms that the author evidently expects the reader to be comfortable with through some previous left-wing indoctrination process.

Perhaps I'm just stupid, but I think that the professor is a pretentious assclown who distracts her readers with gobbledygook horseshit in order to appear to be an intellectual. People of her political bent who admire her (or at least want to be publically seen by others admiring her) probably haven't got any better idea what the hell she's writing about than I do. The difference between me and them is that I am not pretending to understand it in order to show that I'm smart enough to know what she's writing about. Terms like: Global-Feminism, 'otherness', and a whole litany of other code words that probably mean something to liberals who care about that stuff.

At least I have a name and face that answers a question I've had for some time, which is: 'Who writes this crap, anyway?'.

Side note: Her son 'Bem' was shot to death in 1999 while trying to escape Odom Correctional Institution in Northampton County, N.C. where he was incarcerated on a 95 year sentence for multiple rape counts, attempted murder, robbery, and kidnapping.

Professor Holloway then turned around a wrote a book on anguish and suffering in late 20th Century African-America.

[JustaCowgirl]

Her semi-crazed grinning expression reminds me of that lunatic grin that Cindy Sheehan always has on her face.