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Bowen on Sotomayor

By K.C. Johnson

Few high-profile figures who involved themselves in the lacrosse case embarrassed themselves more than did William Bowen. The former Princeton president, invited with the NAACP?s Julius Chambers to review the Duke administration?s response to the case by Duke President Richard Brodhead, produced a report that could have passed as a parody of political correctness. Bowen, a longtime defender of racial preferences and colleges promoting ?diversity,? chastised Brodhead for having an insufficient number of minorities and women in his employ. The Bowen report also contended that the administration should have heeded more the viewpoints of faculty extremists such as Houston Baker, the English professor who, in a March 29, 2006 ?open letter,? had stated unequivocally that the accuser had been ?harmed? and mentioned ten times in fifteen paragraphs the race of the lacrosse players...continue to full post

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