[Uncle Miltie]

"Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets"

As an '84 Grad married to a Jewish '84 Grad, I doubted this story from the get-go. CMC's student body then was about 70% Republican and energized, but hardly racist. The worst thing you could say is we felt sorry for the obvious affirmative action students, and tried to help them out.

[william clark]

I suspected this was a hoax as soon as the first reports came in on it. For one thing, there was just a little too much "diversity" in the epithets on her car. Genuine bigots seem to have trouble focusing on more than two personal characteristics at a time.

[RBroadfoot]

Two comments:

1) Claremont is home of the "Jesus Seminar" which was formed to create a scholarly refutation of Christian notions about the "historical" Jesus. This would agrees with the assessment that Claremont is a very liberal institution.

2) Evidently the psycho-prof was disturbed by the absence of anti-Semitic hate crime following The Passion of the Christ, so she decided to gen some up.

OTH, she might be innocent.

[DentsRun]

Police will forward their findings to the district attorney's office Thursday, Van Horn said. One charge that could result, he said, is a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report.

People convicted of hate crimes go to jail for years. How come she only faces a possible misdemeanor?

[doug from upland]

Perhaps a scam to hit up her insurance company for a new paint job?

[DentsRun]

The LA Times sent out three reporters to cover this car trashing story when it broke last week. I'm just waiting to see how many reporters they send out to report it was all a fake. Answer: one at most, and there's a good possibly they may send out none at all. If they do run a story it will probably quote police officials as saying that the chances of finding and convicting the people who committed the hate crime on Professor Dunn's car have been diminished by "certain" inconsistencies in the case. They'll do anything but openly admit that Dunn may have done it herself. Or else they'll find some college offical to say that Dunn's self-trashing "only goes to show how confused someone can become when she's face with a hate crime."

[martin gibson]

Professor Dunn is just another pig.

[Mamzelle]

Munchausen's Syndrome--

Once you see this in action at close range, you are not the same.