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The Duke Chronicle published this week an interesting open letter to university President Richard Brodhead. Dear President Brodhead, With this letter, we—a group of Duke University’s student leaders—come together in…
Students at Duke have joined their contemporaries at Yale, Mizzou, and other campuses across the country in demanding the the university do something about a level of racism on campus that,…
In the spring of 2006 the Duke lacrosse program was front-page and major-network news almost daily, for reasons we all remember. After the notorious party on N. Buchanan Blvd., the…
Stuart Taylor Jr. says Duke hasn’t learned from its lacrosse scandal. The place is still infected with the most virulent strain of due-process-killing political correctness: In September, far from taking…
Duke has named a replacement for 17-year VP for Public Relations John Burness. He’s 45-year-old Duke alum Michael Schoenfeld, a 1984 grad. Duke President Richard Brodhead had this to say…
Say it isn’t so. Let’s ask these folks what they think about Mr. Brodhead’s leadership at Duke.
Duke President Richard Brodhead apologizes, sorta. Sorry. Too little, too late. He points out all the things that “Duke” did wrong, but it was really him. He’s the place where…
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…
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.…
K.C. Johnson, whose encyclopedic Durham in Wonderland blog kept the nation riveted — and informed — during the Duke lacrosse case debacle, will be in Durham next week to talk…
Evan Thomas of Newsweek says Duke President Richard Brodhead and the Duke faculty don’t come off well in the K.C. Johnson/Stuart Taylor Jr. book Until Proven Innocent. The authors describe…
I’ve found it hard to write a snarky response that is still subdued enough to post. So let me try another tactic: simply posting the facts. 1. Duke football player…