I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Now the Duke Conservatives, who brooked horrible castigation and, without uttering a nasty word and without raising a voice in anger, continued doggedly to press for fair treatment of the accused players in the most poisonous climate imaginable, have written an elegant request that the eighty-seven professors—one has since defected—apologize for their childish behavior.

Duke’s radical professors feel as sure of their warped world view as suicide bombers.