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John In Carolina (johninnorthcarolina.blogspot.com) has great Duke University news, photos, videos and more
Thursday, Jan 1
Attorney Spilbor Proves Duke's Trustees Knew
Yet the Durham, North Carolina District Attorney, Mike Nifong, has vowed not to drop the case. Comments: Spilbor is an intelligent, able and experienced attorney. Duke University had access to a great many such attorneys. Duke knew, didn't it?
Monday, Dec 29
Duke's Allison Haltom & the trustees
Defendant Allison Halton (sic) [the University’s Secretary] was also added to the CMT following its first meeting on March 25, 2006 (emphasis added) For many years at Duke Haltom's principal duty involved trustee liaison. Allison Haltom is someone to remember.
Sunday, Dec 21
Did Duke's trustees just follow Steel's lead?
BOT chair Robert Steel's Apr. 7, 2006 public statement included the following : The trustees of Duke University have been in active conversation with President Brodhead and the university’s senior leadership since the outset of the controversy involving the men’s lacrosse team. We app...
N&O’s public editor today & my response
Comments: Just moments after [the woman who says she was raped last week by three members of the Duke University lacrosse team} and another exotic dancer started to perform, she said, men in the house started barking racial slurs. The two women, both black, stopped dancing.
Wednesday, Dec 17
Opinion: Duke’s endowment, budget reporting trails Harvard’s & Yale’s
It was back on Oct. 23 that Duke President Richard H. Brodhead released his most recent letter on "Duke and the economy." On Dec. 8 Brodhead and BOT chair Robert Steel granted an interview to The Chronicle. Judging by what The Chronicle published, their goal was to simply reassure the Duke commu...
Friday, Dec 12
Despite Duke endowment's $1B hit, Steel & Brodhead "very, very" positive
This past Monday, four days before publication of Gallagher's TBR story, Chelsea Allison, editor of The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper, reported on Duke’s BOT’s just completed meetings and BOT chair Bob Steel and president Dick Brodhead’s praise of the "very, very good day-to-...
Tuesday, Dec 9
Take a quick Duke quiz
And it’s not performing too well now unless your definition of “performing well” includes keeping President Brodhead and “Dick’s senior team” in place and raising their salaries while stonewalling alums asking for explanations of Duke’s disgraceful actions and inactions during th...
Tuesday, Nov 25
N&O reporter’s falsehoods undermine editors’ “police report” claim
No one – not the N&O, Nifong, Durham Police or frame-up enablers at Duke - has ever produced a police report recounting the “barking racial slurs” claim. As we go forward, keep this in mind : In North Carolina, as in most states, police crime investigation reports are public records.
Saturday, Nov 22
What's Duke Research for? (Post 1)
I would never “just as easily” begin my Duke Research post with “Duke basketball, not for me until …” because I, like you, know the Duke basketball program has no responsibility to discuss, research and report to us regarding the Duke lacrosse case.
Friday, Nov 14
Nifong’s Nov. ’06 election: a Duke role?
The money was given at a time when Duke’s president, Richard Brodhead, and its board of trustees chair, Robert Steel, were principal enablers of the frame-up attempt Nifong began leading in March 2006. Although Brodhead knew the Duke students had been extraordinarily cooperative with...
Friday, Oct 31
Libertarian Mike Munger for NC Governor
That’s not the case this year in North Carolina. He's a professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Duke University, author, activist citizen, blogger at Kids Prefer Cheese, and a guy with a very good sense of humor (that, IMHO, counts for more than the professorship).
Thursday, Oct 30
Obama's "Redistribution" Constitution
Here in Durham NC supporters of the young black woman whose false accusations of gang rape and other crimes against white members of the Duke lacrosse team led to the Duke/Durham frame-up attempt believe she was denied “her day in court” by a white dominated judicial system.
Tuesday, Oct 28
Obama Judges & Duke lacrosse
Sowell was among first pundits to question and expose the Duke/Durham frame-up attempt targeting three clearly innocent members of Duke’s lacrosse team. Sowell’s entire 4/25/06 column’s here. It’s titled "Law or Lynch Law." And it’s not only here in North Carolina that Obama’s making th...
Friday, Oct 24
Mangum’s presser: bizarre, squalid, and the “Big Three” lose
that Duke University’s leaders and many of its faculty, staff and even some students endorsed her lies and enabled a vicious criminal frame-up; But we can already be sure there were other losers yesterday. Duke University, Durham City and Durham Police were the “Big Three” losers.
Duke this Veteran’s Day Eve
We also pointed out that two additions to the Divinity School were built as close to Duke Chapel as the architect dared, encroaching upon the memorial, leaving it in an air shaft. Ed Rickards Trinity '63 Law '66 Kristin Butler Trinity '08
Thursday, Oct 23
What will the Duke false accuser say today?
The woman who says she was raped last week by three members of the Duke University lacrosse team thought she would be dancing for five men at a bachelor party, she said Friday. But when she arrived that night, she found herself surrounded by more than 40.
Monday, Oct 13
Did the Raleigh N&O fake “a police report?”
Readers Note: If you’re not familiar with the McClatchy News Co.’s Raleigh News & Observer’s Mar. 2006 role in launching the vicious witch hunt and the public part of a criminal frame-up attempt targeting members of the Duke Men’s lacrosse team, please read The Raleigh N&O withou...
Tuesday, Aug 12
Brodhead & Steel's shrinking credibility (a repost)
Dick Brodhead did not bring me in."Recently 1,000 Duke students signed a statement that appeared as an ad in The Chronicle. A big hat tip goes to Student Government President Elliott Wolf for saying to the trustees what University President Dick Brodhead should have said to them many month...
Monday, Aug 11
Brodhead helped Seligmann? Where’s the evidence?
The Aug. 7 story began:If Duke University President Richard Brodhead indeed helped Reade Seligmann transfer to Brown University last year, he did so largely without the exonerated lacrosse player's knowledge, Seligmann and one of his civil lawyers say.
Thursday, Jul 24
A new Duke suit but
The suit is about the violations of the plaintiffs civil rights by Duke University, DU Medical Center, Durham City, Durham Police Department, a DNA testing lab and numerous individuals including Duke's President Richard Brodhead.
Saturday, Jul 12
Do the Duke/Durham suits have a chance?
And keep something else in mind: Duke University has asserted the suits don’t have merit as far as it, its trustees and many of its employees, including President Brodhead, bearing any culpability for events related to the hoax, the frame-up attempt and the ongoing cover-up.
Monday, Jun 16
Jack comments again on Duke. I respond
I have not posted here in quite some time, but I continue to follow events in the aftermath of the lacrosse scandal. I have no connection to Duke University, but I have four children in and around college age (one 2007 graduate, two enrolled and a HS junior) and am very much interested in the qu...
Sunday, Jun 1
Selected comments re: motions to dismiss 38 suit
The plaintiffs seek relief for allege rights violations by a number of individuals and entities including Duke University, Duke University Medical Center and the City of Durham, NC. Defendants filed motions to dismiss this past Friday. Jim in San Diego said...
Thursday, May 22
N&O withheld Lax cooperation news; pushed “silence” lie
The residents of the house have been cooperative with DPD in locating any suspects, he added. (emphasis here and following added)In time for Mar. 24 news reports Duke News issued a statement attributed to John F. Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. T...
Saturday, May 17
Duke Lax '06 Cancellation: What Safety Concerns? (Post 2)
Right now I can tell you this concerning my a first-read of news stories and editorials that appeared on Apr. 6 and 7 in the Raleigh N&O, the Durham H-S and Duke's student newspaper, The Chronicle, concerning the cancellation: none of them mention student safety as a reason for Duke's c...
Thursday, May 8
Opinion: Law prof to certain Duke faculty: "stop digging"
Today, at The Volakh Conspiracy Northwestern University Law Professor Jim Lindgren posts extracts from KC's post and adds some comments of his own. What does the inclusion of these unsourced ramblings say about the editorial policies of the Duke University Press journal Social Text? . . .
Tuesday, May 6
ADA Tracey Cline's well known problems
University of Maryland Law Professor Jason Trumpbour at Friends of Duke University reminds us why Durhamites and justice-seekers everywhere should be concerned about the outcome of today’s primary for the Democratic Party’s nomination for Durham District Attorney to fill the rema...
Thursday, May 1
Kristin Butler Wins National Award
Thanks Kristin, for your hard work and research and guts and love of Duke. Tuesday's won't be the same without your column to turn to. I hope in time the Duke community and the University's officialdom come to appreciate your service to Duke.
Sunday, Apr 20
If Nifong's not involved before Mar. 26, then what?
Readers Note: When I refer in this post to the Durham Police Department, I have in mind only certain police officers and their supervisors up the chain of command to Deputy Police Chief Ron Hodge and the Chief during the Duke lacrosse frame-up attempt, Steve Chalmers, now retired. John
Friday, Apr 18
Court Rules Against Duke
This post - Duke lowers bar and stumbles - includes some of my thoughts on the motion as well as the much more expert thinking of attorneys Paul Mirangoff (blogs at Powerline.com) and Jason Trumpbour ( spokesperson for Friends of Duke University and University of Maryland Law School profe...
President Brodhead’s “Marley problem”
Under the heading, "Brodhead responds to threats on student," The Chronicle today published a letter from President Brodhead. It follows in full, after which I comment below the star line. Richard Brodhead President I applaud President Brodhead’s letter as will all decent people.
Monday, Jan 28
Opinion: Indoctrinate U is “funny, humane and powerful”
Indoctrinate U will be shown Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 PM in Reynolds Auditorium in Duke University’s Bryan Student Center. The Bryan Student Center is beside Duke Chapel and next to a well-lighted public parking deck. A map is here. Indoctrinate U’s showing at Duke is sponsored by Duke Students...
Friday, Jan 18
H-S, Stevenson Get It Wrong. Again!
An H-S story today under Stevenson’s byline, "Ex-Duke coach plans slander suit," reports former Duke Men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler’s plans to file a slander suit against Duke University because of remarks made by senior vice-president John Burness.
Duke’s Tyson Is Still Race Hustling
Duke Professor Tim Tyson continues to race hustle. Tyson teaches at both Duke University and UNC.[…]The rest of the H-S story is here. Why is Tyson so popular with Duke Divinity School administrators, faculty and students? Is his appeal his frequent use of Christian and biblical imagery?
Excellent H-S Pressler Claims Story
The suit named only Duke University as a defendant, implicitly contending that the school was responsible for what Burness said in its name. Pressler and his lawyers did not target Burness personally, or assign liability to Marcus, Beard, Newsday or The Associated Press.