Duke prof. quits committees in protest

[kay1864]

DURHAM, N.C. - A Duke University professor resigned from her committee assignments, saying she was upset by the administration's decision to invite two lacrosse players accused of sexual assault back to campus.

"The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," Karla Holloway, an English professor and former dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, wrote to Duke's black faculty caucus.

"Despite our judgments about the prosecutor's own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process," she wrote.

Earlier this month, officials at Duke said charged lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann could return to school as students in good standing. They were suspended last year after a woman hired to perform as a stripper at a lacrosse team party accused them of rape and sexual assault. A third player, Dave Evans, graduated the day before he was indicted.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_re_us/duke_lacrosse

:popcorn:

[wakeme2008]

1. door /// ass /// hit....

you will not be missed.

[kay1864]

3. Sadly, she didn't have the nerve to actually *quit*...

She only quit her committee assignments. Symbolic gesture, anyone?

[Buzz Clik]

6. Why should she take any risks?

Committee assignments are a pain in the ass. This gives her a convenient excuse to dump some crappy bureaucratic work and take a few shots at the "spoiled rich white boys" at the same time.

[kay1864]

9. She's going to look even sillier when a judge tossed the charges...

'cause Nifong sure as hell won't.

Assuming he's not disbarred first, of course.

[Buzz Clik]

2. I guess she doesn't read the papers much...

These students were banned from the University campus (yes, folks, banned from the campus) before any judicial proceedings, but she didn't mind that.

Looks like the good professor has her narrow mind made up already.

Fuck her.

[Mikey929]

4. Exactly

What a stupid thing to quit over. The young men are so clearly innocent of the charges.

Some people cannot be bothered with facts when it gets in the way of their agenda.

[catnhatnh]

5. Ah, University America....

Innocent until smeared in the papers....

[kay1864]

7. Her webpage on the Duke Univ. website:

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/faculty/karla.holloway

I guess she needs to update her bio now...

[Miss Chybil]

8. I wonder if this is the same teacher who failed a student who was

actually passing because he was on the lacrosse team?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Nope.

[kay1864]

12. Hadn't heard that! No, different prof.

But both profs were

among the “Group of 88″ professors who published an advertisement in the Duke Chronicle calling the rape scandal a “social disaster.” The Group of 88, perceived by critics as attacking the Lacrosse team, at one point thanked protesters who posted “wanted” fliers containing photos of all or nearly all of the Lacrosse players.

http://www.bobkrumm.com/blog/2007/01/05/a-c-change-in-student-university-relations/

[Mike Daniels]

14. So can the players sue either the "Group of 88" or the protestors

responsible for the "Wanted" posters?

[Lance_Boyle]

15. The 'Group of 88'

will be seeking employment at various Community Colleges within the next decade. No University wants faculty so openly hostile to their students.

[Posteritatis]

11. Love that "accused == guilty" bullshit... (n/t)

[Lurking Dem]

13. I think the fact they were REMOVED prior to

a "critical judicial decision" is a breach of ethical citizenship. I'm silly that way.

[YDogg]

16. committee service might actually be required according to the terms of her employmernt contract

she might be roasting her own chestnuts. Her credentials are impressive, and I'm fully supportive of her right to protest any issue she wishes (isn't that a way of life at DU and elsewhere?), but it seems like an odd way to protest. But to basically say, "I don't like this Duke student personnel decision, so I'm not going to do my job" seems foolhardy.