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Four Updates

By K.C. Johnson

In an expected move, Crystal Mangum will not be re-tried on the most arson charge that she faced. What message the jury?s original acquittal vote sends to Durham is anyone?s guess. -- In another unsurprising move, a new (albeit minor) demonstration of the continuing vise the Group of 88 and their allies exercise over Duke. The issue is the five-year review process for Blair Sheppard, dean of the Duke business school. It would be hard to come up with an area of the academy further away from the Group?s race/class/gender vision than the business school. Yet the six-person review committee includes two Group members?Paula McClain (the political science professor who said she wouldn?t publicly call for Mike Nifong to respect due process in his treatment of Duke students) and Cathy Davidson (she of the fact-challenged, ?revisionist? interpretation of spring 2006 events at Duke)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).