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The most interesting aspect of the Duke Non-Rape Case has, for me, been the role that the Duke arts and sciences professoriate has played in stoking the fire. Eager for the content of their “gender” classes to be proved with some corpuscle of hard evidence, they had no trouble emulating Monty Python’s ‘burn her’ squad when three lacrosse players were accused of raping a girl. When it became irrefutably clear that the boys had done nothing wrong, one imagines—one’s mind pleads with the professors, for their own sake—that they’d fade quietly into the night.

Instead, the professors are using university computers to rig the student newspaper’s online poll, which asked Should President Brodhead have reinstated Finnerty and Selifmann? The response they caused to win was: “No, Duke does not need students like these.”

Does Duke need professors like these?