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January 04, 2007
"Calculation Error"
...my a$$ets.
Former Duke Lacrosse Player Sues School
A former Duke University lacrosse player sued the university Thursday alleging that one of his professors unfairly gave him a failing grade because he was a member of the team.Kyle Dowd graduated in May 2006, two months after a woman said she was raped by three of his teammates at a lacrosse party...
...Dowd, who was not charged in the case, claims in his lawsuit that visiting professor Kim Curtis gave him an F in a politics and literature class that nearly prevented him from graduating, even though he had earned C's on his assignments to that point.
"Defendant Curtis engaged in extreme outrageous and unethical conduct ... due to personal bias and prejudice," the lawsuit says.
The university later changed Dowd's grade to a D, citing a calculation error.
I'd be curious if a certain professor's name is one of the 88 on that little letter...
UPDATE: And thank you, dear Gateway Pundit, for pointing out that she is indeed a member of that verbose and august group of reactionaries, whose well reasoned, ethical and courageous stand inspired this rhetorical gem from a concerned and similarly well -educated college student:
In today’s Newsweek, a student at predominantly African-American North Carolina Central carried the Duke 88’s thinking to its logical, if absurd, extreme. The student said that he wanted to see the Duke students prosecuted “whether it happened or not. It would be justice for things that happened in the past.”
And I'll be jiggered! There she is!!
Doncha just wanna hug her? And naturally, after reviewing her field of study, she has no natural bias toward jocks or jock straps.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science,specializes in political theory with particular concentration in contemporary continental work and feminist theory. She has written Our Sense of the Real: Aesthetic Experience and Arendtian Politics. She has also published articles on multicultural education, ethical debates among feminists over new reproductive technologies, and the early women's liberation movement. She is currently at work on a book on the feminist movement in the United States that examines the relationship between theory and practice.
Posted by tree hugging sister at January 4, 2007 07:29 PM
Comments
Geez, she's even head-tilting in the photo.
Posted by: Nightfly at January 5, 2007 12:25 PM
So she does, Diptera. It's a feminist studies thing. Cause your brain to roll to the left enough and it becomes permanent after a while.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 5, 2007 02:27 PM
Assuming that your brains don't fall out of your ear first, that is.
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at January 5, 2007 03:02 PM