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An Update from St. Joe's 16 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Over at Minding the Campus, I’ve analyzed two federal lawsuits filed by male students found culpable of sexual assault after college procedures (at St. Joe’s and Vassar) that failed to provide much, i...
Brodhead, Colbert, and Questions 13 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Richard Brodhead will be appearing Thursday night on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. Let’s set aside the obvious: why would a group that wants to promote increased public support for the humanities s...
Litigation Issues 6 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
As a reader of TheShadow University shortly after it was published, I understood well the due process difficulties in campus judicial systems. But until the lacrosse case, I simply assumed that becaus...
The Perils of Political Correctness 25 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
Two items showing the continuing failure in the academic world to learn the lessons of the lacrosse case. The first comes from the Chesterfield (VA) Observer, which ran an article on the status of Af...
The Brodhead Commission Report 15 Jul 2013 | 10:59 pm
That any commission, of any type, could consider Richard Brodhead as a vehicle to build public support for anything related to higher education is nothing short of astonishing. That a figure who presi...
Supreme Court Update 13 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
For those expecting an analysis of Durham's reply to the cert petition, which originally was due today, the city has obtained an extension from the Supreme Court. The new deadline is August 23.
Updates: Mangum, Academic Freedom 5 Jul 2013 | 11:51 pm
First, Crystal Mangum’s long-delayed murder trial—the false accuser has gone through several attorneys, slowing down the process—is now scheduled, for mid-November. Mangum, who is supposedly financial...
W. Murphy, Hypocrite 1 Jul 2013 | 09:01 pm
During her myriad media appearances commenting on the Duke lacrosse case, adjunct law professor Wendy Murphy came up with virtually everything bad she could possibly say about the three falsely accuse...
Astonishing 19 Jun 2013 | 06:38 pm
The liberal arts are “endangered,” according to a new report. The New York Times describes the document’s high profile: “Requested by a bipartisan group of legislators and scheduled to be distributed ...
The Cert Petition 18 Jun 2013 | 03:58 am
Now that Supreme Court has at least forced Durham to respond, I thought it might be worthwhile to analyze the falsely accused players’ petition, written by Williams & Connolly attorney Kannon Shanmuga...
