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No Class Issue in Coverage of Brown Rape Case?

To call Richard Dresdale a prominent Brown alumnus would be an understatement.  Richard Dresdale is Co-founder and Managing Director of Fenway Partners - a 2.1-billion-dollar private equity fund.  He is the kind of man who can afford to make $118,000 in campaign contributions - in 2008 alone.When Richard Dresdale heard that his daughter claimed to have been raped, he behaved as all of us would have: He was outraged.  He picked up the phone.  He made calls.  He wanted the rapist punished.That it seems almost certain that his daughter fabricated the rape accusation is irrelevant.  Why would a father doubt his daughter's word?  Mr. Dresdale's conduct is not just understandable - it's totally excusable.Yet what Brown University is inexcusable.  Going against everything it teaches, Brown subordinated reason to emotion:A former student has sued Brown University in federal court, saying university officials interfered with his efforts to clear his name after another student, the daughter of a prominent Brown alumnus and donor, accused him of rape...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).