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The CCI: Spring 2006

By K.C. Johnson

The Campus Culture Initiative was among the most outrageous examples of the Duke administration?s response to the lacrosse case. Launched in the same message in which President Brodhead canceled the 2006 season (and on the same day in which he sent his guilt-presuming ?letter? to the Duke community), the CCI functioned as a caricature of what?s wrong with higher education today. To head up the initiative, President Brodhead turned to a politically correct administrator, Robert Thompson, and the member of his senior leadership most hostile to the lacrosse players, Larry Moneta. (Moneta already had remarked on tape that he didn?t believe the players were innocent, and his record of indifference to student rights he brought with him to Duke from Penn...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).