[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.

[azhenfud]

Holloway, "Professor of Law at Duke", ought have known better than to employ her trap before the evidence was presented. She says she "was deeply shocked by the administration’s failure to offer even a note of support to her", when it was she who chose to condemn the accused prematurely.

Yeah, she's a fine example of how America's law ought not be conducted.

She and Nifong apparently went to the same school.