Statement from Duke President Richard H. Brodhead, RE: Dropped Lacrosse Case

Duke University ^ | 4/11/07 | Richard H. Brodhead

[Chena]

You’ve got that right. He’s covering his ass and those of his ASSociates. Good Lord willing, he’ll soon be referred to as the EX-President of Duke University.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I hear and read lots of screams calling for suing Duke U. I just really don’t know what for.

The team did throw a party with strippers, did partake in underage drinking, and admitted to using racial slurs. Can’t the school cite these undisputed facts as reasons for their actions?

These boys no doubt should be compensated but I really think that Durham county should do the paying.

I’m not sympathizing with Duke on this, I’m just unclear as to the extent of their liability.

[Chena]

I noticed Nancy Grace was missing from her show last night too. How con-veeeeeenient.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

No one really expected anything different, did they? I know, it is a head-rush to be right, but c’mon. As I said throughout our case and the Duke Three’s case, “I just wish somebody, somewhere would fail to live up to my expectations.”

[fooman]

Bonehead is a jerk. If he really believed in due process, he would not have made defamatory statements at the beginning.

Nor would he have suspended the students.

$10 million in fines.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I guess it was an oversight that Brodhead forgot to mention this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/education/09duke.html?ex=1304827200&en=4545a9ff0cac9bb4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[ken5050]

The Dookies mens and womens BB teams are cursed as a result. They will never win another NCAA title until all the Duke professors who signed that infamous letter are all gone from the campus..

[COBOL2Java]

Something tells me that if Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty get the right lawyers, Duke University will be renamed Seligmann, Evans, and Finnerty College, what with all the money they could be getting for their university unfairly attacking them.

I'd prefer they be renamed Duke School of Cosmetology...

[Kenton]

Besides having deep pockets, I don’t know what civil liability Duke U has in this case.

What's the saying, "You can sue a cheeseburger"?

The LAX players have a long list of lawyers courting them at this very moment who are willing to take this case on gratis.

If nothing else, they can make the Gang of 88 and Duke hire some expensive lawyers and stew in their own diarrhea for a year or so...

[Reaganesque]

LIST OF INDIVIDUAL NAMES IN SUPPORT OF THE “WE’RE LISTENING” CHRONICLE AD

DUKE'S GROUP OF 88

Abe, Stan (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
Albers, Benjamin (University Writing Program)
Allison, Anne (Cultural Anthropology)
Aravamudan, Srinivas (English)
Baker, Houston (English and AAAS)
Baker, Lee (Cultural Anthropology)
Beckwith, Sarah (English)
Berliner, Paul (Music)
Christina Beaule (University Writing Program)
Blackmore, Connie (AAAS)
Jessica Boa (Religion & University Writing Program)
Boatwright, Mary T. (Classical Studies)
Boero, Silvia (Romance Studies)
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (Sociology)
Brim, Matthew (University Writing Program)
Chafe, William (History)
Ching, Leo (Asian & African Languages and Literatures)
Coles, Rom (Political Science)
Cooke, Miriam (Asian & African Languages and Literatures)
Crichlow, Michaeline (AAAS)
Curtis, Kim (Political Science)
Damasceno, Leslie (Romance Studies)
Davidson, Cathy (English)
Deutsch, Sally (History)
Dorfman, Ariel (Literature & Latin American Stds.)
Edwards, Laura (History)
Farred, Grant (Literature)
Fellini, Luciana (Romance Studies)
Fulkerson, Mary McClintock (Divinity School)
Gabara, Esther (Romance Studies)
Gavins, Raymond (History)
Greer, Meg (Romance Studies)
Glymph, Thavolia (History)
Hardt, Michael (Literature)
Harris, Joseph (University Writing Program)
Holloway, Karla (English)
Holsey, Bayo (AAAS)
Hovsepian, Mary (Sociology)
James, Sherman (Public Policy)
Kaplan, Alice (Literature)
Khalsa, Keval Kaur (Dance Program)
Khanna, Ranjana (English)
King, Ashley (Romance Studies)
Koonz, Claudia (History)
Lasch, Peter (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies & Latino/a Studies)
Lee, Dan A. (Math)
Leighten, Pat (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
Lentricchia, Frank (Literature)
Light, Caroline (Inst. for Crit. U.S. Stds.)
Litle, Marcy (Comparative Area Studies)
Litzinger, Ralph (Cultural Anthropology)
Longino, Michele (Romance Studies)
Lubiano, Wahneema (AAAS and Literature)
Maffitt, Kenneth(History)
Mahn, Jason (University Writing Program)
Makhulu, Anne-Maria (AAAS)
Mason, Lisa (Surgical Unit-2100)
McClain, Paula (Political Science)
Meintjes, Louise (Music)
Mignolo, Walter (Literature and Romance Studies)
Moreiras, Alberto (Romance Studies)
Neal, Mark Anthony (AAAS)
Nelson, Diane (Cultural Anthropology)
Olcott, Jolie (History)
Parades, Liliana (Romance Studies)
Payne, Charles (AAAS and History)
Pierce-Baker, Charlotte (Women’s Studies)
Pebles-Wilkins, Wilma
Petters, Arlie (Math)
Plesser, Ronen (Physics)
Radway, Jan (Literature)
Rankin, Tom (Center for Documentary Studies)
Rego, Marcia (University Writing Program)
Reisinger, Deborah S. (Romance Studies)
Rosenberg, Alex (Philosophy)
Rudy, Kathy (Women’s Studies)
Schachter, Marc (English)
Shannon, Laurie (English)
Sigal, Pete (History)
Silverblatt, Irene (Cultural Anthropology)
Somerset, Fiona (English)
Stein, Rebecca (Cultural Anthropology)
Thorne, Susan (History)
Viego, Antonio (Literature)
Vilaros, Teresa (Romance Studies)
Wald, Priscilla (English)
Wallace, Maurice (English and AAAS)
Wong, David (Philosophy)

[.cnI redruM]

He very carefully stayed on the fence. So carefully that 88 of his faculty members made his university look like a tribal dung heap. Pathetic!

[abner]

Just incredible.

Still shaking my head..

[D_Idaho]

Anybody want to guess what would have happened if it was members of the Duke University BASKETBALL team who had been accused?

[prairiebreeze]

So he fired the coach and kicked two of the boys out of the university because they should be presumed innocent.

Liar.

[Jrabbit]

What a pathetic mutt....has he resigned in disgrace yet?

[Wuli]

The Duke alumni organization should solicit some of the largest contributors to Duke’s endowments and together demand the Duke President and ALL 88 biased members of the faculty resign affective immediately.

[Howlin]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Or as Richard Pryor would say, “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”

[Dante3]

A wimpy message.

As other posters have said, Richard H. Brodhead was active in condemning the three lacrosse players by his actions, including canceling the entire lacrosse season and firing the coach and thus sending a message of guilt.

Brodhead needs to be fired. There is enough evidence to support charges of incompetence against him.

[Dante3]

As other posters have said, Richard H. Brodhead was active in condemning the three lacrosse players by his actions, including cancelling the entire lacrosse season and firing the coach and thus sending a message of guilt.

[azhenfud]

"From the outset, I have been careful to note that these students were entitled to the presumption of innocence and I looked to the legal system to determine the merit of the charges."

I will go out on a language limb here: BULLSHIT.

He cancelled the LaCross team and fired the coach. How much more guilty could he have legally demonstrated he thought they were short of having a gallows built on campus - which he almost became instrumental in that's accomplishment?

Broadhead is a liar.