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  • At Duke, Just Pick Your Facts

    04/23/2006 11:30:44 AM PDT · by freespirited · 9 replies · 452+ views
    The Duke lacrosse team's rape scandal cuts deeply into this country's most tender places: race and class and gender. It reaffirms the unspoken fear that black women/white men/poor people/privileged people/victims/defendants can't get a fair shake under our legal system. It's easy to have doubts about the ability of courts to resolve cases like this one, when you stop to consider that long after the court proceedings, hearings and investigations ended, we still have no idea what really happened between Kobe Bryant and his accuser; between Michael Jackson and his accuser; between Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. If these legal processes...
  • The Evil Virus Upon Us (Universities)

    10/20/2005 8:23:58 AM PDT · by freespirited · 25 replies · 1,066+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 10/19/05 | Suzanne Fields
    A magazine cover story about postmodern life on the American college campus depicts three monkeys in cap and gown, covering their ears, eyes and mouth, a parody of the hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil caricature. But students at many colleges actually get quite the opposite. They're required to hear, see, speak and study all about evil, as long as it's the evil oppression of everybody in American society. There's an emphasis on multicultural studies and few campuses have escaped the disease, ... students study the life and murder of Tupac Shakur, the "gangsta" rapper ...There's "Queer...