Posted on 10/02/2007 1:20:50 PM PDT by bs9021
Everything that is wrong with higher education, and, for that matter, most major media, was on stunning display for the past two years as the district attorney in Durham, North Carolina attempted to prosecute a bogus rape case against three Duke lacrosse players. All of the figures of authority at Duke who could have set the record straight and ended the persecution of a trio of lacrosse players tilted to the side of the ethically challenged DA.
That record is laid out to a fare-thee-well in the book Until Proven Innocent by Stuart Taylor Jr. and K. C. Johnson. Taylor, a reporter for the National Journal, and Johnson, a history professor at Brooklyn College, lay out the evidence on the case and show that, even before the DA reluctantly admitted that the player’s DNA did not match anything found on their accuser, nearly everything that we were told about the case was wrong.
For, example, when the state attorney general finally declared the lads innocent, the academic and media figures who aided and abetted Durham DA Mike Nifong continued to insist that the former suspects were “no choir boys.” A reporter from the Christian Science Monitor tried to push this one on me in an interview in which he questioned yours truly about the aftermath of the controversy.
As it turns out, compared to their peers, these Duke students lived a nearly monastic existence. “They studied hard,” the authors note. “They got good grades, among the best of any other lacrosse team in the Atlantic Coast conference.”
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87 Duke faculty members have not apologized. Duke’s president is still drawing a paycheck. The Trustees are still in their oversight role at the university.
And my daughter, who will be applying to a number of fine schools for admission next year, will not be applying to Duke, in part because of the conduct of the “Duke 87” and the pusilanimous response of the Duke administration to that conduct. Actions have consequences.
“these Duke students lived a nearly monastic existence”
Monks hire crack whores for entertainment?
As bad as Duke faculty are, the city of Durham is even worse. I wouldn’t even drive through Durham much less send my daughter to live there. Good decision on your part!
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