George St. George Biddle Duke, a descendant of the Duke family, has blasted Duke President Richard Brodhead as a “politician who has climbed the ranks of educational sinecurity by being politically correct and playing the game to get a plum assignment.” He did so in a letter to Duke’s alumni magazine (scroll down to second-to-last letter), which he also criticized for not publishing letters critical of the university’s response to the Duke lacrosse case:
Seriously folks, is there not a single member of the Duke Magazine staff, the administration, or faculty that is critical of President Brodhead’s conduct concerning this matter? Because hundreds of alums I talk to feel strongly about all these events and are disgusted by the official Duke reactions or lack thereof. Is there not a single man or woman of strong conscience or opinions left at my dear old alma mater?
The magazine’s editors peevishly put a (sic) following Duke’s creative coining of the word “sinecurity,” presumably because they couldn’t find it in a dictionary. That tells you all you need to know.
(h/t LieStoppers Forum)
