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Closing Comments

By K.C. Johnson

When I first started writing about the lacrosse case, at a joint historians? blog called Cliopatria, I did so in reaction to the Group of 88 statement. Then (and now) I considered the statement an indefensible betrayal by professors of their own school?s students, an action that contradicted many of the basic values on which American higher education rests.Absent the Group statement, I doubt I would have noticed the case at all?in spring 2006, I didn?t even know that Duke had a lacrosse team, much less know any of its members. But as I remained interested in the case, the editor of Cliopatria suggested I spin off into a focused blog. When I did so, in August 2006, I envisioned a six-week effort, which would perhaps provide background for people interested in the case from the 60 Minutes broadcast, which I had heard was scheduled for early October...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on July 18, 2014 (boomark / email).