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The Duke lacrosse case: A 10-year perspective
Ten years have passed since the false rape accusations that created turmoil for the Duke University men’s lacrosse team and the Duke campus in general. KC Johnson revisits the case…
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Farewell to KC Johnson’s great Durham-in-Wonderland blog
Brooklyn College history professor KC Johnson took an interest in the Duke lacrosse case in 2006, following the revolting Group of 88 campaign of sentence first, trial afterwards. He began…
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Too many chiefs, not enough Indians
Oops, sorry for that insensitive headline, but it certainly applies to higher education these days: In the fall of 2004, 50.6 of professional full-time employees in higher education (excluding medical…
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Athletic privilege and Duke – Round 47485
Dear President Broadhead, Judicial Affairs Staff, Group of 88, and other if-not-distinguished-at-least-infamous company, In late August, a football player was arrested for an underage DUI (BAC .12), simple assault, carrying…
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A chance to dilute Group of 88 toxicity
Duke has announced a $40 million endowment that will enable it to create 32 new professorships. If they’re smart, they’ll make sure they don’t get any of the ilk of…
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Quote of the day
KC Johnson, whose Durham In Wonderland blog was essential reading during the Duke lacrosse hoax, takes apart the Group of 88 today. He points out how the left-wing professors, mostly…
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Group of 88 prof touts witchcraft’s benefits
In the spring of 2006, as a member of the infamous Group of 88 tenured radicals at Duke, Prof. Anne-Maria Makhulu was trying to put the curse of “white privilege”…
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Is Duke next?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Holocaust denier and Islamo-fascist, will speak at Columbia University, though apparently he won’t be able to use Ground Zero as a photo-op backdrop. Last year, Columbia…
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45 to 1 on campus
The Yale Daily News has found that Yale professors give $45 to Democratic candidates for every $1 they give to Republicans. What a surprise. The capture of faculties by former…
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KC and Taylor disguise the left
KC Johnson and co-author Stuart Taylor Jr. have an excellent column in The New York Times today about the Duke lacrosse rape-fraud case and former DA Mike Nifong’s one-day sentence.…
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Blue Devil now Bear
“I know that they will understand why I cannot return to Duke.” In the wake of Duke’s heartbreaking loss to Johns Hopkins in the NCAA lacrosse championships, Reade Seligmann announced–in…
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Unable to let the Duke lacrosse case go
I guess it should be no surprise that the socialist-leaning Independent Weekly sees all sorts of exploitation of the oppressed by the ruling class in the Duke case, even after…