Posted on 01/04/2007 8:11:42 AM PST by maggief
Chapel Hill — WRAL has confirmed that the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case gave birth at UNC Hospitals on Wednesday.
Sources tell WRAL the woman had the baby by Cesarean section. She was not due until February.
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I've got the pdf of the ad. It used to be hosted on a duke.edu server. I'm sure it's been pulled down, by now.
I don't have a place to host it. FReepmail me your email, and I'll email it to you.
I wish these Marxist Professors might one day realize it is they who create, invent, and further "social disaster." But they won't. They just wanna see their faces on the cover of The Rolling Stone...
..and she'd be well deserving of the low grade considering how many young minds she'd dumbed down while Duke U charges hefty tuition and book fees.
I was convinced long ago that Marxist professors at the colleges and Universities were only interested in indoctrinating; but also teaching semantics to their students in order the students be able to obfuscate facts not in line with their ideology. It's kinda like reading legalese, at times... Teaching legalese, but not English, and this author is professor of English! "F" for FLUNKED!
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/faculty/cathy.davidson
Cathy N. Davidson
Interim Director and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English
Right now she's a Visiting Professor.
Soon she'll be Ajunked Professor.
A little academic humor there.
"Interdisciplinary Studies"
means she doesn't know enough about anything to have an actual real appointment.
Trinity Park, who'd a thunk it.
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Author sees Mount Fuji as metaphor for life and loss
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
November 3, 2006
Author: Susan Broili sbroili@heraldsun.com; 419-6632
Estimated printed pages: 4
Mount Fuji provides inspiration in more ways than one for Duke University professor Cathy Davidson's memoir about her experiences in Japan.
Art of the snow-capped mountain appears on the cover. And, at the beginning of each chapter she chose as illustrations Hokusai Katsushika's depictions of the mountain from his series of woodblock prints, "36 Views of Mount Fuji." She also incorporated the name of the series in the title of her book, "36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan." "There are certain things that change all the time. And, certain things that never change," Davidson said in a recent interview.
While people face changes in their lives, Mount Fuji symbolizes the things that never change, she added.
"A lot of the book is about remaking a life, including my own," she said.
In it, she shares personal losses of friends and family as well as how another culture helped her heal. She writes of snorkeling for hours off the island of Oki, where she explored coves and beach-combed for the glass balls fishermen had once used as weights for nets.
She writes of the generosity of Japanese friends in sharing their culture. Through them, she visited the "Floating World," where businessmen meet geishas and the normal rules of society are suspended. On a remote island, she entered into a sacred grove under the guidance of the high priestess of the communal, matriarchal society believed to be the last of its kind in the world.
Across cultures
Teaching English had brought her to Japan for most of her stays there, and in her book she writes of her struggles as a student of the language and culture.
"You don't ever fully learn another culture but you can develop very warm and close connections with people across cultures," she said.
Her experiences in Japan continue to affect her life here. Some of the Japanese glass balls grace her office at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, which she co-founded and serves as vice provost for interdisciplinary studies. She came to Duke University in 1990 and is also a professor of English there.
Her Trinity Park home features a Japanese room because she likes the clean, simple, natural and asymmetrical lines of the Japanese aesthetic, she said.
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Another silver lining to this tragedy: The psychobabble of academia will be on full display for all to see.
It's too early for this, but what the hay ...
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Photo exhibit focus: Ordinary lives of lesbians
Rumpled bedsheets serve to illuminate rather than titilate
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
October 13, 2002
Author: Blue Greenberg Columnist
Estimated printed pages: 3
"Academic Eye III: Reinserting Myself Into a History"
Duke University Museum of Art, through Nov. 7
"Reinserting Myself Into a History" is an exhibition of large-format photographic prints by former UNC Chapel Hill instructor Tammy Rae Carland, who asserts her lesbianism in her choice of themes. Carland is now on her way to California, where she will be an associate professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
As the third show in a series called the "Academic Eye," the Duke museum invited Duke's vice provost and director of interdisciplinary studies, Cathy Davidson, to choose an artist whose work she finds challenging.
"I did not know Carland, personally," Davidson said, "but I thought her work was important." After visiting the artist's studio, Davidson chose photographs from two series, "Lesbian Beds" and "Keeping House."
Lesbian lifestyles have so often been relegated to underground porn that these beds, seen from closely cropped aerial views, empty of their occupants, presents us with a set of complicated layers of meaning.
First of all, Carland writes that they are "formally composed and edited to conceptually resemble abstract expressionist and color field paintings." She emphasizes those who have just vacated the bed with the traces of them and objects that they have left behind.
The beds, which belong to her and to lesbian friends, were photographed as they were found. From across the gallery, formal artistic elements such as curves, straight lines, color and shadow assert themselves as abstract forms within a large frame. Close inspection, however, reveals the abstractions are really mussed and rumpled sheets and comforters with clues to the missing occupants: books, nightclothes, pets and deliberate patterns that suggest the genders of the recent sleepers. In her gallery guide essay, Davidson makes much out of the fact that the bed linen is not fashionably coordinated, but looks more like the odds and ends of a starter household.
Each photograph has some element or touch that makes it hard to believe the photographer didn't change a thing. For example, in "Untitled #10," a turquoise sheet has been bunched in such a way that it looks like the ribbon loop that honors breast cancer victims. In "Untitled #8," a sock lies in a corner like a needless phallic symbol, and in "Untitled #13," a slit in a pillow suggests the vaginal opening.
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Ted is one of those leading the charge to have Crystal billed as Nifong's "victim". The "victim" has to be somebody's "victim"--and it looks right now that being Nifong's "victim" is the best they are gonna get.
I wonder how Nifong got her to make these rape charges in the first place. /sarcasm
Must ... avoid ... straight ... line.
Must ... avoid ... straight ... line.
Must ... avoid ... straight ... line.
Willpower failing.
Duke panel debates freedom, politics
Student paper ad citing political ties of dept. personnel set off discussion
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
March 2, 2004
Author: HUNTER LEWIS hlewis@heraldsun.com; 419-6651
EXCERPT
Joining Van Alstyne on the panel were University Counsel David Adcock, political science Chairman Michael Munger, Vice Provost Cathy Davidson of the English department and Bill Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Sciences.
Schlesinger, a longtime member of the university's appointments, promotion and tenure committee, defended the university's hiring practices, saying he did not recall ever seeing political affiliation mentioned in the roughly 300 faculty files that have come across his desk.
Adcock called the listing of political affiliations for the humanities professors "an interesting benchmark," but he argued that the affiliations were not meaningful measurements of political ideology.
Speaking about the scarcity of registered Republicans in academia, Davidson joked that universities should strive to recruit Republicans to the humanities earlier in life by offering "programs for affluent, gated communities, so baby Republicans can learn the joy of the classics."
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A visiting professor decides to climb out on a limb and saw the limb off at the tree trunk base in the name of "social justice" to the tree.
Iraq has suicide bombers, we have adjunct professors.
LMAO! Of course, when I have my "artsy" glasses on, I can certainly do my own fair share of "ruminating and speculating" upon "desperate art". Frankly, I think the monolith in 2000: A Space Oddysey would be my response to the "bedwork" art discourse.
She's been "visiting" for over a decade.
Any idea why she hasn't been "given" a standard position as a "teacher"?
Looks like she hasn't done anything for 10 years!! Plenty of time for self-righteous outrage and spotting "social disasters".
Yes it has. It makes it easier for them to lie when they claim that they are being misquoted. They've been caught repeatedly in that scheme. They mistakenly thought that nobody else saved a copy of their screed.
I truly appreciate your perspective.
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