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May 08, 2007

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Duke alum

Just a small correction for your post. The professor in question was not Lubiano, it was Karla Holloway. I hope that the book didn't make the same mistake.

Duke alum

Not to belabor the point, but here is the link to the article in the Raleigh News & Observer regarding the e-mail exchange between Mrs. Dowd and Karla Holloway.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/531318.html

The release of the first chapter of Yaeger's book caused some concern about the attention to detail and accuracy. I haven't seen the book yet, but if it confuses Lubiano and Holloway, that is more cause for concern.

Old Dawg

Thank you for your review, professor. It is difficult for most writers to make their writing "neutral in tone." That must explain why you opined that Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter are not to be "passed off as sensible people."

I know Iowa City quite well and KC Johnson's observations about the faculty at Duke are eeriely redolent of the University of Iowa faculty and administration. Perhaps you remember the April 2000 fake "hate crime" perpetrated by a U of I dental student and the resulting comment by U of I administrator Ann Rhodes prior to the young woman's confession that she had faked the "hate crime."

April 21 -- A black dental student was charged Thursday in a series of racist and threatening e-mails directed at her minority classmates. Prosecutors blamed Tarsha Michelle Claiborne, 23, for a three-week period of threatened violence that frightened students at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA'S COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY and forced the closing of the school's main building on Wednesday. Claiborne, of Baton Rouge, La., was arrested early Thursday.

April 28 -- A civil rights complaint against the University of Iowa has been filed with the U.S. Department of Education after a top official at the school called white men "the root of most evil." University of Iowa Vice President for University Relations ANN RHODES said April 20 that she thought the suspect in a series of alleged campus hate incidents "was going to be a white guy between 25 and 55 because they're the root of most evil," prompting the complaint, which was filed by the California-based European/American Issues Forum. The suspect in the case was a black female student at the university's College of Dentistry. In apologizing for the comment last week, Rhodes said her characterization of white men as the root of most evil "reinforces the kinds of stereotypes we have been working to dispel." She also called her remarks "a poor attempt at humor," and said it was "inappropriate to joke about such a sensitive issue."

Tung Yin

I didn't join at the University of Iowa law faculty until fall 2002, so I wasn't here during this particular incident, although I think I've vaguely heard about it.

Leigh

How can anyone passionate about a "wrongfully accused experience" write of it in a nuetral fashion????? Especially when the accusers and their cohorts are hellbent on their mission to pursue such injustice which will result in their own gain or personal fame? Please visit our story of incomprehensible injustice that had a sorry outcome due to lack of funds to pay for proper representation!

Diane

I too read the book "It's not about the truth" and was not quite as surprised or upset since I know personally how these injustices happen everyday and how difficult it is to fight "the establishments" that all stick together! Please read about the case of Paul Cortez and look at the information that has been compiled by a group of people that are trying to correct this horrible injustice. Please look at FreePaulCortez.Org

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