KC Johnson Comments on New Leadership at Duke; Same Old - Same Old

When you read Johnson's comments on the appointment of Donna Lisker as associate dean of undergraduate education, you come to the horrifying conclusion that - at Duke - this is the best that can be done. It's depressing.

Click on the link for the entire article, including sound bites of Lisker commenting on the probable guilt of the lacrosse players.

And how's this for stereotyping: cultural conservatives are more likely to commit rapes! Yes, according to the new Dean most rapists have "traditional beliefs."
K C Johnson:

But there’s something off-putting about a university administrator suggesting that her ideological opponents are more likely to commit rapes—even if, as she hastened to add, most cultural conservatives were not prospective criminals. Imagine the outrage if Duke had appointed as associate dean a conservative who had publicly asserted that feminists were more likely to file false rape reports.

Lisker tries to steer the focus away from the false rape charges to the fact that some members of the team had a party at which there was drinking and that a stripper was hired. I don't know about the stripper - I went to school in a more uptight age, and, frankly, strippers were not in my budget. But to appear to be outraged about drinking in college is so ludicrous as to be a self-parody.

There is much more in this post that needs to be read. But the end result remains horribly depressing. I recently attended a meeting at which one of the men mentioned that his son attended Duke. I told him how sorry I was.