At last night’s panel at Duke on the lacrosse case, Stephen Miller, executive director of the Duke Conservative Union, focused on the reaction to the case of Duke University administrators and professors. He said that from the start the administration made it clear it was less important to defend the lacrosse players than to appease the radicals within the university. “You have almost an intellectual cancer growing here,” he said. He cited comments from professors “that ultimately served to hurt due process,” especially those of Houston Baker and the Group of 88. This group, Miller said, has bullied the administration and Duke President Richard Brodhead “to basically advance their own kind of ideas about what Duke University should be.” And he added: “Obviously, Brodhead is very afraid of them. I’m sure he’s shaking in his suit.”