KC Johnson notes that 17 members of the Duke economics department have signed a letter supporting the Duke lacrosse players indicted by DA Mike Nifong. The letter begins with a slap at the so-called Duke 88, the lefty fringoid professors who signed an especially noxious and prejudicial letter back last spring:
We, the undersigned Economics Department faculty members at Duke University, are cognizant of the fact that, to date, the only collective signed statement by faculty members concerning the events of last March was an advertisement in the Duke University Chronicle subsequent to protests and a forum on March 29, 2006. We are aware too that the advertisement was cited as prejudicial to the defendants in the defense motion to change the venue of the trial involving the three Duke lacrosse team members. We regret that the Duke faculty is now seen as prejudiced against certain of its own students.
The dominos keep falling.
