Duke prof. quits committees in protest

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.

"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.

Earlier this month, officials at Duke said charged lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann could return to school as students in good standing. They were suspended last year after a woman hired to perform as a stripper at a lacrosse team party accused them of rape and sexual assault. A third player, Dave Evans, graduated the day before he was indicted.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_re_us/duke_lacrosse

:popcorn:

you will not be missed.

She only quit her committee assignments. Symbolic gesture, anyone?

Committee assignments are a pain in the ass. This gives her a convenient excuse to dump some crappy bureaucratic work and take a few shots at the "spoiled rich white boys" at the same time.

'cause Nifong sure as hell won't.

Assuming he's not disbarred first, of course.

These students were banned from the University campus (yes, folks, banned from the campus) before any judicial proceedings, but she didn't mind that.

Looks like the good professor has her narrow mind made up already.

Fuck her.

What a stupid thing to quit over. The young men are so clearly innocent of the charges.

Some people cannot be bothered with facts when it gets in the way of their agenda.

Innocent until smeared in the papers....

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/faculty/karla.holloway

I guess she needs to update her bio now...

actually passing because he was on the lacrosse team?

But both profs were




http://www.bobkrumm.com/blog/2007/01/05/a-c-change-in-student-university-relations/

responsible for the "Wanted" posters?

will be seeking employment at various Community Colleges within the next decade. No University wants faculty so openly hostile to their students.

a "critical judicial decision" is a breach of ethical citizenship. I'm silly that way.

she might be roasting her own chestnuts. Her credentials are impressive, and I'm fully supportive of her right to protest any issue she wishes (isn't that a way of life at DU and elsewhere?), but it seems like an odd way to protest. But to basically say, "I don't like this Duke student personnel decision, so I'm not going to do my job" seems foolhardy.