More apologies necessary in lacrosse case
(10/04/07 4:00am)
President Richard Brodhead was very gracious, as always, in his apology for Duke's handling of the lacrosse case. Indeed, he went far beyond what was necessary.
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President Richard Brodhead was very gracious, as always, in his apology for Duke's handling of the lacrosse case. Indeed, he went far beyond what was necessary.
Had Ronald Reagan shown his resum� to a political consultant fifty years ago, he probably would have been told to abandon any thoughts of a political career. To be sure, he was photogenic and had good name recognition as a B-list movie actor and television spokesman for General Electric. But important negatives seemed to dominate: Reagan had never run for public office; he had switched parties, abandoning his early preference for Franklin Roosevelt's Democratic Party; and he had been involved in a well-publicized Hollywood divorce at a time when divorce was a virtual political career-ender. Moreover, he sat out World War II making movies while voters seemed eager to reward military heroes. Five-star general Dwight Eisenhower had just been elected president and both political parties included younger aspirants with sterling wartime records, including Bob Dole, George Bush, Jack Kennedy and many others.
The Wall Street Journal story on the "sale" of undergraduate admissions by elite universities is a bit like a late-breaking expose with the headline: "The world is not flat." Why the WSJ picked on Duke is not clear as the Ivys would also have been good candidates. Consider the case of a hard-partying preppie with a mediocre academic record, and even worse SATs, who got into Yale University because daddy was rich and famous. After a lackluster record at Yale, and clever maneuvers to avoid military service in Vietnam, he was admitted to the Harvard Business School. Would daddy's wealth and fame have had anything to do with George W. Bush's admission to these elite universities?
The plan to increase parking fees from $85 to as much as $120 imposes an outrageous burden on University employees. Staff salaries at Duke are not excessively generous, and an increase of 147 percent is simply taking back much of the small annual increases earned by even the best employees.
Let's hang Michele VanGorp from the rafters in Cameron Indoor Stadium-her shirt, that is. Her credentials are compelling: She led Duke to its two best basketball seasons and to within 20 minutes of the NCAA championship. In addition, she made the 1999 Kodak All-American Team.
Almost everyone has heard about the goons who attacked Nancy Kerrigan in an attempt to end her brilliant skating career. Very few know of an equally despicable effort, in the course of the tenure process at Duke University, to destroy the career of a brilliant scholar and greatly-admired teacher--Timothy Lomperis.