How's the follow-up to the fraudulent rape case going?

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<p>From legal journalist Stuart Taylor:</p>

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The Rot At Duke -- And Beyond
Much of academia appears to have a disregard of due process and a bias against white males.</p>

<p>by Stuart Taylor Jr.</p>

<p>Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>The facts are otherwise. They also suggest that Duke University's ugly abuse in 2006 and 2007 of its now-exonerated lacrosse players -- white males accused by a black stripper and hounded by a mob hewing to political correctness -- reflects a disregard of due process and a bias against white males that infect much of academia.</p>

<p>In September, far from taking pains to protect its students from false rape charges, Duke adopted a revised "sexual misconduct" policy that makes a mockery of due process and may well foster more false rape charges by rigging the disciplinary rules against the accused.

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<p>You can read the entire article for free at National Journal's website.</p>

<p>Also there's more about it at Volokh's website. I don't want to give direct links as the mods don't want those kind of links, but it's easy enough to find.</p>

<p>What's it been like on campus? Has this had any effect on the day to day life?</p>

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<p>absolutely not. I don’t get the point of this post, I feel like the response is pretty obvious
If the new policy is the… your obligated to tell if you know something, or something along those lines, I mean the only way that changes day to day life is if there’s rape every day.
It’s not like its an issue on this campus, besides, the guys in the case made out Very Very well for themselves as i’ve heard.</p>

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<p>I don’t quiet understand the point of this post either. There have been no lasting effects from the rape case, and I believe most Duke students want to put this shameful affair behind them.</p>

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<p>I don’t get this either lol. That event is something I feel like duke will try as hard as possible to make sure never, ever happens again.</p>

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<p>Whatever happened to the 88 professors that “signed an ad implicitly presuming guilt”?</p>

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<p>^^According to KC Johnson, “the group of 88 has, if anything, only tightened its vise over Duke’s humanities and (some) social sciences departments in the wake of the affair.” So apparently if Duke is willing to do something to put this incident behind them, it’s certainly not willing to rebuke in any way some of the dumbest and most perfidious professors in the history of US academia. </p>

<p>In case you’re interested, KC Johnson is a history professor at Brooklyn College who voted for Obama in the last election, so any attacks on him as some sort of uneducated southern conservative probably won’t go very far. Johnson has been blogging about the Duke case since its inception and has written the best book on the subject.</p>

<p>But in the ultimate court of public opinion recent events have made the Group of 88 look even more inept and lacking in judgment than they previously appeared. It’s one thing to rush to judgment when the evidence is clear cut. But these guys chose to trust Michael Nifong, the first NC prosecutor to be disbarred in over 70 years and Crystal Mangum, the stripper who made up the lies about the Duke students. Earlier this month Mangum was arrested following a horrible altercation with her boyfriend. According to the Johnsvile News: “On February 17, 2010 Mangum was arrested and charged with with attempted murder, arson, assault and battery, identity theft, communicating threats, damage to property, resisting an officer and child endangerment. Mangum allegedly went into a bathroom and set some clothes on fire in a bathtub following a fight with her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33. Her three children were in the house, but no one was hurt.”</p>

<p>Notice, by the way that I am only reporting that Mangum was arrested, not that she did these things. It’s not that hard. Let’s see what happens in court.</p>

<p>I’m all for getting past this case ASAP. But the biggest obstacle is the failure of these professors to admit they were wrong, to publicly apologize and to offer restitution to those they hurt.</p>

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<p>bird- Unfortunately, people - and yes, professors are people - get wrapped up in hysteria. I don’t condone what the group of 88 did by overlooking the facts and accusing three kids of rape, but at the same time, I will repeat myself and say that these are people. They are not gods. Their decisions are subject to fallacy. Hubris got in the way of a proper apology, and many have looked down upon them for this. Publicly. There is nothing novel to your argument except the time stamp. Many people, including those who sided with the three victims here all along, would like this episode to be put to rest. Your regurgitation of an issue that currently has little bearing on Duke is unnecessary.</p>

<p>Finally, the fact that 88 professors signed an ad doesn’t make them bad professors. It means they made a mistake. When you try to attack anything but their judgement, you are making as much of a leap of faith as they did. It’s time we all start to learn from past mistakes, yourself included.</p>

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Duke students (and the people paying tuition) might have an interest in being reminded of the judgment shown previously by their CURRENT professors and how Duke allowed their hubris to get “in the way of a proper apology”. Duke didn’t “allow” it? How many of the group of 88 are still at Duke?</p>

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<p>Some are still at Duke and some have been promoted by other institutions, even after the ad. Most notably, Houston Baker (who was the most vocal and extreme faculty member throughout) was hired by Vanderbilt to be Distinguished University Professor, while Grant Farred got a promotion by the hands of Cornell…So, looks like nothing unique to Duke…These professors are the same throughout the country, there isn’t anything inherently different about Duke. If you want to avoid them, don’t take their classes. They pretty much are in 2-3 departments that aren’t required courses, so if you don’t want to be taught by them, don’t take classes from them (and this goes for every university in the nation, not just Duke). In any event, everybody at Duke has put this behind them, and it doesn’t effect your experience one bit. It’s really a non-issue.</p>

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<p>Remember there are current lawsuits concerning this issue still outstanding. Personally I wish the administration would settle these cases out of court rather than filing motion after motion and allowing this to drag on year after year.</p>

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<p>I always thought it was awful how the Duke community screwed those lacrosse players over. Everyone on here seems to want to sweep this issue under the rug, but I think it deserves to be brought up again. These professors helped ruin the lives of 3 innocent young men. Apologies are necessary.</p>

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<p>In today’s litigious society an apology would open the door to more lawsuits.</p>

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<p>You cannot possibly be serious… Apologies were delivered and it’s over. Simply over. Why would it deserve to be brought up again? (Tip: That was a rhetorical question.)</p>

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<p>@eatsalot</p>

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Cite, please? I know that Brodhead apologized but it was very minimal and he made it clear he was not speaking for the Group of 88. How many of them have apologized? Please cite your source here.</p>

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Quoted for truth.</p>

<p>I had about a half dozen of those professors during my time at Duke. One of them taught my very first college class, in fact, and has a [white male] son of her own. I’ve worked with some of the others on committees. </p>

<p>I can and will only speak for the professors I know on the list, BUT</p>

<p>– They are not racist.
– They are not misandrist.
– They do care deeply about their students.
– They are not out to indoctrinate their students.</p>

<p>Speaking as someone who was on campus both before and after the lacrosse incident, life at Duke went on much as it always had.</p>

<p>That said, I will readily admit that it was a severe lapse of judgment for those professors to sign the statement, and it’s worth noting that the list of people who signed the second one is not quite the same as the list of those who signed the first – more than a few regretted rushing to judgment, or seeming to do so.</p>

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<p>The faculty who signed the ad – the “Hate 88” – were:</p>

<p>Abe, Stan (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
Albers, Benjamin (University Writing Program)
Allison, Anne (Cultural Anthropology)
Aravamudan, Srinivas (English)
Baker, Houston A. (English and African & African American Studies)
Baker, Lee (Cultural Anthropology)
Beaule, Christine D. (University Writing Program)
Beckwith, Sarah (English)
Berliner, Paul (Music)
Blackmore, Connie (African &; African American Studies)
Boa, Jessica (Religion & University Writing Program)
Boatwright, Mary T. (Classical Studies)
Boero, Silvia (Romance Studies)
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (Sociology)
Brim, Matthew (University Writing Program)
Chafe, William (History)
Ching, Leo (Asian &; African Languages)
Coles, Rom (Political Science)
Cooke, Miriam (Asian & African Languages)
Crichlow, Michaeline (African & African American Studies)
Curtis, Kim (Political Science)
Damasceno, Leslie (Romance Studies)
Davidson, Cathy (English)
Deutsch, Sarah (History)
Dorfman, Ariel (Literature & Latin American Stds.)
Edwards, Laura (History)
Farred, Grant (Literature)
Fellin, Luciana (Romance Studies)
Fulkerson, Mary McClintock (Divinity School)
Gabara, Esther (Romance Studies)
Gavins, Raymond (History)
Greer, Meg (Romance Studies)
Glymph, Thavolia (History)
Hardt, Michael (Literature)
Harris, Joseph (University Writing Program)
Holloway, Karla (English)
Holsey, Bayo (African & African American Studies)
Hovsepian, Mary (Sociology)
James, Sherman (Public Policy)
Kaplan, Alice (Literature)
Khalsa, Keval Kaur (Dance Program)
Khanna, Ranjana (English)
King, Ashley (Romance Studies)
Koonz, Claudia (History)
Lasch, Peter (Art, Art History)
Lee, Dan A. (Math)
Leighten, Pat (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
Lentricchia, Frank (Literature)
Light, Caroline (Inst. for Crit. U.S. Stds.)
Litle, Marcy (Comparative Area Studies)
Litzinger, Ralph (Cultural Anthropology)
Longino, Michele (Romance Studies)
Lubiano, Wahneema (African & African American Studies and Literature)
Maffitt, Kenneth(History)
Mahn, Jason (University Writing Program)
Makhulu, Anne-Maria (African & African American Studies)
Mason, Lisa (Surgical Unit-2100)
McClain, Paula (Political Science)
Meintjes, Louise (Music)
Mignolo, Walter (Literature and Romance Studies)
Moreiras, Alberto (Romance Studies)
Neal, Mark Anthony (African & African American Studies)
Nelson, Diane (Cultural Anthropology)
Olcott, Jolie (History)
Parades, Liliana (Romance Studies)
Payne, Charles (African & African American Studies and History)
Pierce-Baker, Charlotte (Women’s Studies)
Peebles-Wilkins, Wilma (visiting scholar from Boston Univ.)
Plesser, Ronen (Physics)
Radway, Jan (Literature)
Rankin, Tom (Center for Documentary Studies)
Rego, Marcia (University Writing Program)
Reisinger, Deborah S. (Romance Studies)
Rosenberg, Alex (Philosophy)
Rudy, Kathy (Women’s Studies)
Schachter, Marc (English)
Shannon, Laurie (English)
Sigal, Pete (History)
Silverblatt, Irene (Cultural Anthropology)
Somerset, Fiona (English)
Stein, Rebecca (Cultural Anthropology)
Thorne, Susan (History)
Viego, Antonio (Literature)
Vilaros, Teresa (Romance Studies)
Wald, Priscilla (English)
Wallace, Maurice (English and African & African American Studies)
Wong, David (Philosophy)</p>

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<p>And the 89 faculty members who signed the subsequent “open letter” supporting the 88’s attack on their own students were as follows. Those marked with asterisks had signed the original ad.</p>

<p>Stan Abe *
Benjamin Albers *
Anne Allison *
Srinivas Aravamudan *
Lee Baker *
Sarah Beckwith *
Paul Berliner *
Tolly Boatwright *
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva *
Jack Bookman
Matt Brim *
Bill Chafe *
Leo Ching *
Elizabeth Clark
Rom Coles *
Michaeline A. Crichlow *
Kim Curtis *
Roberto Dainotto
Leslie Damasceno *
Ariel Dorfman *
Laura Edwards *
Grant Farred *
Jeffrey Forbes
Mary M. Fulkerson *
Erin Gayton
Jehanne Gheith
Margaret Greer *
Michael Hardt *
Erik Harms
Joe Harris *
Kerry Haynie
Karla Holloway *
Bayo Holsey *
Mary Hovsepian *
Sherman James *
Alice Kaplan *
Keval Khalsa *
Ranjana Khanna *
Fred Klaits
Claudia Koonz *
Robert Korstad
Pedro Lasch *
Caroline Light *
Marcy Little *
Ralph Litzinger *
Michele Longino *
Wahneema Lubiano *
Anne-Maria Makhulu *
Tamera Marko
Paula McClain *
Louise Meintjes *
Sean Metzger
Walter Mignolo *
Alberto Moreiras *
Cary Moskovitz
Mark Anthony Neal *
David Need
Diane Nelson *
Jocelyn Olcott *
Charles Payne *
Charlie Piot
Ronen Plesser *
Maureen Quilligan
Jan Radway *
Tom Rankin *
Marcia Rego *
William Reichert
Deb Reisinger *
Alex Rosenberg *
Marc Schachter *
Stephanie Sieburth
Laurie Shannon *
Pete Sigal *
Irene Silverblatt *
Joshua Socolar
Kristin Solli
Helen Solterer
Fiona Somerset *
Roxanne Springer
Rebecca Stein *
Kenneth Surin
Susan Thorne *
John Transue
Maurice Wallace *
Priscilla Wald *
Kathryn Whetten
Robyn Wiegman
David Wong *
Tomiko Yoda</p>