DUKE (NON) RAPE UPDATE: “Two hundred ninety-five days after issuing their statement, the Group of 88 has re-emerged, in a defiant statement posted yesterday.”
UPDATE: Ann Althouse comments:
“The disaster is the atmosphere….” — we’re told. The students’ perceptions matter and deserve to be “give[n] voice.” But the professors don’t like how they were perceived by the world outside the university; that was misreading. But if it is perception — atmosphere — that matters — how can you think that you can contribute things to be perceived and avoid responsibility for the effect that you have?
The whole ad, the whole concept behind the ad, is a joke.
And so, increasingly, is Duke. And the whole thing is self-inflicted.