Posted on 06/20/2007 2:53:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
I was busy digging up the info while you were posting.
Hmmm... just checking Wikipedia, it doesn’t have an entry yet for the Duke “Gang of 88”. Maybe that will become a little weekend project.
the problem is this is NOT ATIPICAL.
This happens every single day in universities and prosecutorial offices.
(consider the Palm Beach Bar Complaint over thelimbaugh case, same identical media manipulations and no result)
also this prosecutor is just the poster child for charging anything in order to pressure a plea bargain. Force the defendant to choose between cost of defense to just getting back to what is left of their life.
and used against them as an admission.
These professors were on a very serious hook.
They had no accademic first amendment protection.
This is not about duke protecting professors, this is about duke protecting duke.
The appology ad might not be admissible by the plaintiff but if the defendant introduces it in trial, the plaintiff can use it to show an admission of liability.
These professors will not be emboldened but this settlement and need for duke to get them off the hook is damning on their careers outside of the ivory tower.
If a crime is a crime it is a crime, I say...
With Pay!
And the 88 dirtbags walk free??
Cordio
Wadda I hafta do? Scarify myself?
Any legal types on this morning?
This makes no sense to me. Duke didn't officially direct the 88 faculty members to do what they did. How could Duke legally cover for them? Is it just a matter of choice, that Duke can do so just because they chose to?
“It is the only way out of this mess.”
Evidently not.
It’s just as well the faculty was shielded....no way a white kid could win in a Durham court....they don’t call it “brown town” for nothing....no way a black jury would award those boys a cent....they still believe a rape happened and the white estblishment covered it up.
.....and BTW those guys might have come from prosperous families but they were there on SCHOLARSHIPS!!!....that means they worked their asses off to get that good...it had nothing to do with family circumstances....nobody says a black kid who plays for Coach K is “privledged” because he plays at Duke....the kid spent years practicing/playing to get to that level....he’s an elite athlete.
When you say things like this you make conservatives appear both ignorant and stupid. Romance studies means romance languages and literature, i.e. french, spanish, portuguese, italian, romanian, and various dialects thereof. It is a serious academic subject and you do your cause and ours no good by sneering.
>>As Duke shut the door on lawsuits by the players in the lacrosse case...<<
This is a very poorly written article!
I was unaware that a university had the legal authority to prevent citizens from filing law suits against other private individuals. That IS what the above statement alleges.
I agree hate crimes are complete crap!
“I was unaware that a university had the legal authority to prevent citizens from filing law suits against other private individuals. That IS what the above statement alleges.”
If the university makes a shield integral to the settlement, and you sign on the bottom line, then they are simply holding you to the terms of the contract, which you signed.
Article makes the vile Paula McClain sound like the victim here...... she IS one of the “Duke 88” who poured gasoline on the fire, and now she’s gotten herself promoted to a very senior spot in the ranks of Duke faculty. Not only are the Duke 88 not going to suffer the slightest punishment, but at least one of their number is rising high in the ranks of Duke’s faculty. What a fetid PC cesspool Duke is.....
That is perfectly correct usage.
Modulate can mean “tone down”.
>>If the university makes a shield integral to the settlement, and you sign on the bottom line, then they are simply holding you to the terms of the contract, which you signed.<<
Yes, yes... It simply galled me that the article was unable to make it abundantly clear that the falsely accused students had reached a mutual agreement with the university. This talk of “shutting the door” is graphic, but misleading.
Well Pardon me for my ignorance.
I am also sorry you are humorless.
I see now how serious the study of the so called Romance languages is. I can see where they are an absolute necessity to getting a good paying job.
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