Ah yes - PC stances versus reality
Or, the heading could be:
One Down, 87 To Go!
With the Duke rape case in tatters, the alleged victim can't keep her story straight (she's changing version numbers like Microsoft!), the DNA samples are from other guys than the accused, and Nifong (the DA who has kept this fiasco going) has just asked to be replaced by a special prosecutor - a legal version of Cut and Run!
Remember all of the uproar on that campus about rich white privilege, the New Black Panthers marching, students with their knickers all in knots, howls at almost lynch mob level to put the whole team into shackles, not to speak of the actual accused?
And not one of these out for "jail time before trial" (actually, trial optional) ever discussed "innocent before proven guilty". Including a number of professors.
Gee, with a BA/BS, perhaps a Masters (or multiple), or PhDs (or multiples), wouldn't these erudite, learned folks know a tad about how our jurisprudence system works?
Anywho, one of the esteemed Duke University hallowed Dons has just decided to walk out of the Ivory Tower:
DURHAM, N.C. - A Duke University professor resigned from her committee assignments, saying she was upset by the administration's decision to invite two lacrosse players accused of sexual assault back to campus.
Ah yes, the presumption of innocence - let's sacrifice due process on the PC altar, shall we? Discussion of relevant and provable evidence? Naw, we KNOW we are right and they are GUILTY! Accused is not guilty. And given the fumbling follies that have been splattered all over the media, there is MUCH to believe that the one to be accused is not the students but both the "exotic dancer" and the highly respected DA Nifong.
No mention about that, right?
"The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," Karla Holloway, an English professor and former dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, wrote to Duke's black faculty caucus.
"Despite our judgments about the prosecutor's own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process," she wrote.
Subverting? Sweeping Nifong's total mishandling of this case under the rug?
Ethical citizenship? How 'bout trying LEGAL citizenship, the advocacy of the rule of law? If the students are guilty, throw the academic book at them, but only if guilty (and I REALLY have my doubts about that now).
According to court papers filed Thursday by the defense, the accuser told prosecutors in December that Seligmann did not commit any sex act on her during the alleged attack but was repeatedly urged to join in.
District Attorney Mike Nifong last month dropped rape charges against all three players after the accuser wavered in key details of her account. Nifong was later charged by the State Bar with ethics violations for public comments he made about the case early on; a hearing scheduled in that case is scheduled for May 11.
Er, Dr. Holloway, empirical data here shows "case unraveling, students smeared", leaving you to be just another PC loving prof..
Holloway was one of 88 faculty members at Duke who endorsed an ad last April in the campus newspaper that included anonymous quotes from students discussing racism and sexual assault on Duke's campus. She said she receives angry, racist e-mails attacking her for being among the school's critics.
Publish them....let's see!
