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Amazing

By K.C. Johnson

?Take Back the Night? events are a mainstay of contemporary college campuses. Although they originated from a debunked theory (the idea that one in four women will be victims of sexual assault while in college), they are the sort of undertakings that can?t really be criticized: who, after all, wants to be attacked as ?pro-rape?? That said, the lacrosse case offers an example of how easily the cause can be overtaken by extremists. The 2006 Duke ?take back the night? rally featured the distribution of the ?WANTED? posters of lacrosse players?without, it seems, condemnation from the Duke administration. Last weekend, Vanderbilt had its annual ?take back the night? event. The featured speaker? Houston Baker. That?s the same Houston Baker who: --demanded three days after the case went public that Duke expel, without due process, every member of the lacrosse team; --suggested, without evidence, that other lacrosse players had committed other rapes; --published an open letter containing ten derogatory references to the race of the lacrosse players; --from his Vanderbilt email account, referred to one lacrosse parent as the ?mother of a farm animal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).