Dartblog
Special Feature: Give a Rouse
Whither the College on the Hill? Dartblog brings you news and commentary from Hanover and the world at large, including deep coverage of the maturing tenure of Dr. Kim.
Archived post
This is an archived post. Please click here to see the latest entries.
« The Academic Blog Portal | Home | At Waters’ Edge, the Politics Are Just Beginning »
Mike Nifong To Answer to the people
Durham County district attorney Mike Nifong, who has conducted a many-ways illegal crusade against the Duke University lacrosse team, is coming under the microscope of North Carolina congressman Walter Jones, who is urging the Department of Justice to take up the Duke Rape Case, which Nifong has used to his personal electoral and popular benefit at the expense of justice. The lovely and talented La Shawn Barber comments.
I haven’t the ability nor the energy to document just how shot-through this case is, or how racist its cheerleaders have been, or how subverted has been the cause of justice because of Nifong’s tactics. But if you must do the reading, then K.C. Johnson’s reams are for you.
UPDATE: Just this evening, news was released that, while several male samples were found inside the accusor, none was from a Duke lacrosse player.
Featured posts
-
October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…