Posted on 06/20/2007 2:53:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
If the race of the victim isn't mentioned then she's white. You can count on it.
What if your parents had mortgaged their homes to pay the lawyers, and this winds up taking them off the hook and giving you a nice piece of change?
The faculty is practically "judgment proof", it'd cost more to sue them than you'd ever be likely to collect. Basically, they're like illegal aliens driving without insurance. No problemo, you wipe out of family of four, take the deportation and come back in a coupla weeks under a new false ID.
A serious academic subject... no, it’s not a serious subject. Engineering is a serious subject...Chemistry is a serious subject. Romance studies is a frivolous subject..no different from Political “science”.
I have undergrad degrees in both PoliSci and Physics... believe me, I only had to study seriously at one of those...
USMA ‘93
When I hear 88 I think of “keys on a piano” or a famous German cannon.
The plaintiffs can agree to not sue third parties as part of the settlement.
You make an excellent point. The $200,000 parents intended to spend at Duke could be put into an investment fund for their child, could buy a house for him/her, could set her/him up in a small business, etc.
I agree that these so-called “Iv League” colleges are nothing more than the American Left’s version of Al Quaeda training camps.
I think the judge just wants to get rid of him as fast as possible. Often suspension with pay is the easiest way, especially when it’s only taxpayer money.
- 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. -
Yes they are, if you want to be:
An Ambassador
Work for the State Department
Be an asset to a multi-national company
Work as a translator
Work as an interpretor
Be involved in negotiations with people of those cultures
Believe it or not, people of different nationalities think differently; one of the ways of learning how they think is to study their languages and literature - especially studying literature in the original language gives one insight into the values, mores and pre-conceptions of people born in Europe.
And now we are told that Duke had to shield them with a settlement?
I knew I was being lied to.
I think the word she sought was modify? One can, of course, modulate speech but clearly that’s not what she intended. Anyway, it sure makes her sound smart.
"We libel and slander people so routinely around here we never even give it a second thought," she added.
So, the boys signed away their right to civil action against the 88.
However, is there any standing by the state to persue CRIMINAL action against these people by a new courageous DA?
Wait a minute!!! When did we lose our local paper to Charlotte? Mind you it's not that great but it's ours...dang it Charlotte gets everything in this state...lol
Don’t worry. It cost Duke every penny they had saved in their legal fund. Tens of millions at the very least. By taking the money now, the three victims get to keep more of the money which would otherwise go to their, and Dukes, lawyers if the case went to trial.
Another good point in taking the money now, is that it establishes their case against Durham County and Nifong. Duke, by paying, has strengthened that case and they can now use that money to go after the big bucks. You shouldn’t worry that Duke university is somehow getting off easy either.
This is going to hurt everyone associated with the university for a long time to come. There are going to be layoffs, shrinking enrollments, fewer endowments. Duke will end up a shadow of it’s former self, if it doesn’t go bankrupt entirely.
If the trustees were smart they would clean house and fire the president and all 88 signers of the ad slandering the lacrosse team. However, they aren’t smart or they wouldn’t have hired them in the first place. Stupid university deserves to go down the drain. Good riddance.
PS. you know it cost Duke big bucks to settle. It's standard to keep settlements secret if they are large. Thats so scammers won't see to the payer as a soft target that can be intimidated into paying large settlements. If the settlement were small, Duke wouldn't have any reason to keep it secret.
You are seeing the 88 professors and Duke University as two separate entities. They are not.
The scum bags trustees and the 88 professors are cronies. Of course any settlement would protect their fellow socialist maggots as well as the university.
Maybe the boys, who are now young men, just want to have a life.
OK, I made that up. But ultimately it is the students, and their parents who will pay for this. I doubt that the gang of 88 will even suffer a single consequence.
That is, until admissions drop at Duke, because people don't want to pay for its stupidity.
Charlotte sure has the best airport in the Southeast. If you can avoid Hotlanta, do so.
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