Out of curiosity, I searched the list. Out of a total of 88 signers, 11 of them are from the English Department.
When Duke got the tobacco money, they went overboard with political correctness, trying to be like the Ivy League. Now we see the results. Not one of those professors gives a damn about literature. It's all about race, gender, postcolonial theory, and feminism.
What on earth is Romance Studies? (Do I want to know!?!) and why do they need so many Romance Studies professors?