Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Duke University Lacrosse players rape case redux

Usually, I don't cite Wikipedia, but this case has so many links and details, it's the only reasonable thing to do. The Duke University Lacrosse players rape charges by a stripper, Crystal Magnum.

If ever there has been a gender/race/class case where educated, informed liberals, both academics and journalists, behaved this badly, I've missed it. Anyway, Crystal Magnum continued to get in trouble with men, and now is behind bars for murder, having stabbed her boyfriend in April, and he died a few weeks later. Before that she had been in jail for arson. And I don't think the Gang of 88, the Duke Faculty who sign and published a letter against the team, ever recanted or apologized. That's racism run amok.

There are probably people who continue to pay the high tuition costs of Duke, but if I were a parent, I wouldn't even consider letting my child step foot on the campus. The behavior of Duke's faculty, those tenured hoodlums, is the flip side of lynching in the days of Jim Crow, and white men just aren't safe in that atmosphere.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonder what happened to that black professor Halloway who even after the players were found innocent objecvted to them readmitted to classes. Perhaps she visits Magnum in jail?

Anonymous said...

The Duke Gang of 88 and the classes to avoid, if mom and dad insist you go there.
1.Abe, Stan (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
2.Albers, Benjamin (University Writing Program)
3.Allison, Anne (Cultural Anthropology)
4.Aravamudan, Srinivas (English)
5.Baker, Houston A. (English and African & African American Studies)
6.Baker, Lee (Cultural Anthropology)
7.Beaule, Christine D. (University Writing Program)
8.Beckwith, Sarah (English)
9.Berliner, Paul (Music)
10.Blackmore, Connie (African &; African American Studies)
11.Boa, Jessica (Religion & University Writing Program)
12.Boatwright, Mary T. (Classical Studies)
13.Boero, Silvia (Romance Studies)
14.Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (Sociology)
15.Brim, Matthew (University Writing Program)
16.Chafe, William (History)
17.Ching, Leo (Asian &; African Languages)
18.Coles, Rom (Political Science)
19.Cooke, Miriam (Asian & African Languages)
20.Crichlow, Michaeline (African & African American Studies)
21.Curtis, Kim (Political Science)
22.Damasceno, Leslie (Romance Studies)
23.Davidson, Cathy (English)
24.Deutsch, Sarah (History)
25.Dorfman, Ariel (Literature & Latin American Stds.)
26.Edwards, Laura (History)
27.Farred, Grant (Literature)
28.Fellin, Luciana (Romance Studies)
29.Fulkerson, Mary McClintock (Divinity School)
30.Gabara, Esther (Romance Studies)
31.Gavins, Raymond (History)
32.Greer, Meg (Romance Studies)
33.Glymph, Thavolia (History)
34.Hardt, Michael (Literature)
35.Harris, Joseph (University Writing Program)
36.Holloway, Karla (English)
37.Holsey, Bayo (African & African American Studies)
38.Hovsepian, Mary (Sociology)
39.James, Sherman (Public Policy)
40.Kaplan, Alice (Literature)
41.Khalsa, Keval Kaur (Dance Program)
42.Khanna, Ranjana (English)
43.King, Ashley (Romance Studies)
44.Koonz, Claudia (History)
45.Lasch, Peter (Art, Art History)
46.Lee, Dan A. (Math)
47.Leighten, Pat (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
48.Lentricchia, Frank (Literature)
49.Light, Caroline (Inst. for Crit. U.S. Stds.)
50.Litle, Marcy (Comparative Area Studies)
51.Litzinger, Ralph (Cultural Anthropology)
52.Longino, Michele (Romance Studies)
53.Lubiano, Wahneema (African & African American Studies and Literature)
54.Maffitt, Kenneth(History)
55.Mahn, Jason (University Writing Program)
56.Makhulu, Anne-Maria (African & African American Studies)
57.Mason, Lisa (Surgical Unit-2100)
58.McClain, Paula (Political Science)
59.Meintjes, Louise (Music)
60.Mignolo, Walter (Literature and Romance Studies)
61.Moreiras, Alberto (Romance Studies)
62.Neal, Mark Anthony (African & African American Studies)
63.Nelson, Diane (Cultural Anthropology)
64.Olcott, Jolie (History)
65.Parades, Liliana (Romance Studies)
66.Payne, Charles (African & African American Studies and History)
67.Pierce-Baker, Charlotte (Women’s Studies)
68.Peebles-Wilkins, Wilma (visiting scholar from Boston Univ.)
69.Petters, Arlie (Math)
70.Plesser, Ronen (Physics)
71.Radway, Jan (Literature)
72.Rankin, Tom (Center for Documentary Studies)
73.Rego, Marcia (University Writing Program)
74.Reisinger, Deborah S. (Romance Studies)
75.Rosenberg, Alex (Philosophy)
76.Rudy, Kathy (Women’s Studies)
77.Schachter, Marc (English)
78.Shannon, Laurie (English)
79.Sigal, Pete (History)
80.Silverblatt, Irene (Cultural Anthropology)
81.Somerset, Fiona (English)
82.Stein, Rebecca (Cultural Anthropology)
83.Thorne, Susan (History)
84.Viego, Antonio (Literature)
85.Vilaros, Teresa (Romance Studies)
86.Wald, Priscilla (English)
87.Wallace, Maurice (English and African & African American Studies)
88.Wong, David (Philosophy)

Norma said...

Halloway is a protected species--her resume says she has a new book published by Duke in 2011 on cultural bioethics--whatever that is.