The Rot At Duke -- And Beyond

National Journal ^ | December 18, 2009 | Stuart Taylor, Jr.

[wac3rd]

Lower standard of admissions

Lower costs of education via financial aid and grants

Easy coddled, Marxist-inspired majors

Protected college policies and purposely segregated clubs, associations and organizations, typically funded by the school

Easier entry into graduate or professional schools

Preferred entry into the workforce

Effectively un-fireable upon hiring and employer under constant scrutiny of not advancing or increasing the pay of the aforementioned under contant threat of litigation

And, top top it all off, a mainstream media that refuses to show anything unbecoming of anyone of a certain ethnicity(ies)

What a crock, and people wonder why logical people hate the lie of political correctness?

[bert]

Who would rape a Duke woman?

Carolina is just down the street

[Georgia1]

The child sex abuse/incest/rape case is a County issue not a Duke issue.

[Sherman Logan]

True.

It doesn’t get much play because it doesn’t fit the paradigm. But. The various “innocence projects” use DNA and other newly available evidence to re-examine convictions. By far the most common conviction overturned is rape.

To be fair, this is at leaast partly because DNA evidence is more likely to be available. But it does make you wonder.

[jimt]

Sounds like a few cases of industrial strength DukeLax is needed to flush out the crap listed here.

At least 88 doses.

[Ready4Freddy]

I don’t think you meant to direct that to me, but there is a recent case of a Duke admin employee adopting an AA child and offering him up for sex on the internet.

[ltc8k6]

Thanks for the sonar, abb!

[Ready4Freddy]

I meant to mention - welcome to FReerepublic, btw.

[jpl]

I’ve read pieces from retired police officers and detectives that indicate that as many as forty to fifty percent of rape charges filed at police stations across the country are in fact false accusations.

[Carry_Okie]

The revised policy, among other things, shows that Duke is still in the grip of the same biases,

In all likelihood, this white male professorate is collectively projecting their individual aggressive sexual fantasies toward the co-eds in their charge.

[Zebra]

Ultimately, this PC ROT is dragging academia toward irrelevance, college by college.

This is almost a certainty. Distance learning a la The University of Phoenix will displace traditional colleges. Customizable, valuable courses that end in vocation. Immediate update to curricula. The textbook racket is over (the Kindle will do that anyway). Heck, even sports teams will exist, with students using league-approved avatars. No steroids, no phony "student athletes" facade and hoepfully the death or dramatic overhaul of the NCAA. These online communities will be augmented by local clubs that will provide an outlet for social networking and certain extracurriculars (even dating).

And why not? The cost for upper education is absurd and modern universities breed elitism (overwhelmingly characterized by strident liberalism). Tenure is a cancer in that it suspends accountability.

This will happen in my lifetime and I am 50.

[neverdem]

bttt

[John Will]

I’d value a MIT or Caltec degree over an Ivy at this point

[thulldud]

...will attract students interested in serious, marketable discliplines like engineering, math and the hard sciences.

Who will then return to their homes in Mumbai and Beijing.

Because there is no work of the sort they are trained for in America any more.

[SunkenCiv]

You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in recent history, and whose professors -- 88 of them -- signed an ad implicitly presuming guilt, and whose president came close to doing the same would have learned some lessons. The facts are otherwise.

Thanks neverdem.

[pabianice]

Be kind. The news that Saab is being put to sleep has left most Duke professors suicidal.

[pabianice]

Meanwhile, at UMass...it's worth visiting this school just as you'd go to a zoo. These programs are staffed and attended by the largest assortment of bad-tempered, obese, ghetto-speaking, low-IQ, professional victims you'll ever see. Barnum would kvel.

[Vigilanteman]

Interesting comments on the college sports. One reason I prefer baseball to football and basketball is that baseball doesn't expect the colleges to provide their farm teams. Yeah, they draft a player here and there off college teams, but they support their entire minor league system.

If sports are so damn important to the college's prestige, they should pay the players and contract with the NFL, NBA, NHL, etc. to provide farm teams.