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The CCI: Summer 2006

By K.C. Johnson

During summer 2006, the CCI?s four subcommittees went to work. The initiative?s directors, Bob Thompson and Larry Moneta, made no pretense of balance in selecting subcommittee chairs, instead handing three of the four over to figures on the extremist fringe of discourse about the lacrosse case: Karla Holloway chaired the race subcommittee, just as she was analyzing the case through a take-no-prisoners lens: ?White innocence means black guilt. Men?s innocence means women?s guilt.?Anne Allison, partner of Charlie Piot and co-chair of the gender/sexuality committee, had a long record as a campus ?activist? and was in the process of developing a course that essentially called for Duke students to dig up dirt on athletes and fraternity members.Peter Wood, who chaired the athletics subcommittee, already had been discredited by the Coleman Committee report, and during the summer preposterously asserted to the New Yorker that a lacrosse player had advocated genocide against Native Americans...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).