Sure its THE issue. It is the fundamental issue. It is the basic duty of a teacher, of a school, of a college to support its students. It is called "In Loco Parentis", a doctrine that in great folly has been re-defined, scoffed at and forgottten, as "Universities" become great feed lots, impersonal factories, no place more selfish and dehumanizing.
The students should have been given more than just the presumption of innocence, they should have been supported the way a parent supports an accused child.
Because there has developed a heartlessness in the academic class, a greediness, a sense of lifetime tenured entitlement -- even for professors who speaking from extremely coddled, protected tenured pensionated turrets fire off broadsides about free markets and libertarian economic philosophies. Because the sentence prior was left incomplete, I must begin a new one.
The end of the last one starts here: because of that heartlessness and abandonment of basic duty the College -- now more grandly titled "The University" -- becomes a Duke. Becomes a. Columbia.
A Duke. A Columbia. A waste and a wasting.
Because professors with so called ideals are themselves afraid to walk-the-walk and not just talk the talk talk talk, the greedy and lazy -- the selfish and miserable have taken over.
Yes, and to compound the tragedy, those in that majority chastise the truly good people in the halls of higher learning to insure they maintain their perverted control.
The issue was never his failure to "support" the students or their families. Universities are not equipped to determine guilt or innocence. That is why trials are held in courts instead of on campus. It was none of the university's business to "support" either the students or those who were accusing the students.Sure its THE issue. It is the fundamental issue. It is the basic duty of a teacher, of a school, of a college to support its students. It is called "In Loco Parentis", a doctrine that in great folly has been re-defined, scoffed at and forgottten, as "Universities" become great feed lots, impersonal factories, no place more selfish and dehumanizing.
Hmmmm . . .I think you have caught Professor Sowell on that one. Congratulations; that is no mean feat.
In critiquing Brodhead's "apology, I thought "Would it actually have killed him to have said at the outset something as positive as, 'While of course having an open mind about any possibility, Duke of course hopes that none of its students are guilty of this, or any other, crime.'?" And the answer to that question, I'm afraid, is "Yes." Because that would not have been politically correct, it would only have reflected what the parents of the students must hope is the mission of the University.