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21 Nov, 2006 11:11 am
Not Johnson, it seems. Perusing the strangely interesting Google Maps site on where deceased Justices of the Supreme Court are buried, I came
across this entry for Justice William...
3 Oct, 2007 7:20 am
The anti-lacrosse extremist, from an op-ed in today's H-S: "I stopped reading the blogs many months ago." "By speaking only of his own supposed mistakes together with a
swipe at ... the lacrosse case that by force of repetition seems to have metamorphosed into the truth of what actually happened." It's good to see that Orin Starn admitted that it has been "many months" since he even looked at the subject of his hyperbolic attacks today. Is he that cavalier before making
assertions in the classroom, ...
27 Mar, 2007 3:00 am
... "screwed up." The implication: maybe a rape occurred, maybe it didn't, but the prosecutor's mistakes mean that people should "let" the case end. To make sure that readers
know ... whether or not a rape occurred, in her next sentence, Roberts quotes the accuser's father, Travis Mangum, who says he still believes his daughter. During ... professors:
Group of 88 extremist Grant Farred and anti-lacrosse stalwart Orin Starn. Which of the two was her source for the suggestion that "because the
case has been ...
2 Apr, 2007 5:01 pm
... Roy Goodman, a college counselor with TopColleges.com; Duke law professor Paul Haagen; and anti-lacrosse extremist Orin Starn. Goodman was
a voice of realism in a debate too often characterized by outlandish thinking. "Duke," he stated, "is ... on behalf of "many" (unnamed) professors and firmly in support of "our
excellent president," Starn hailed the CCI's "positive recommendations." In a comment oozing with condescension, he stated that athletes are "lovely people," but they were "just
getting ...
31 May, 2007 5:01 pm
... (Houston Baker, Peter Wood, and Orin Starn). The article minimized the largely positive findings of the Coleman Committee report and didn't
mention that the committee had found Wood's criticisms non-credible. Bliwise didn't ... , as an official publication of the administration, the article places the administration
in the most positive light possible. Examples of Bliwise's "spin" include: Critics on Brodhead Bliwise writes, "In letters and online postings, critics said that university
officials ...
18 Mar, 2008 1:58 am
Slate has launched a new group law blog - Convictions - with a great range of contributors: Ben Wittes, David Barron, Deb Pearlstein, Adam White, Dawn Johnson, Doug Kmiec, Diane Amann, Nancy Gertner, Jack Balkin, Kenji Yoshino, Marty Lederman, Orin Kerr, Patrick
Keefe, Eric Posner, Richard Ford, Tim Wu, Viet Dinh, Walter Dellinger, Dahlia Lithwick, Emily Bazelon, Phil Carter, and David Feige Check it out here.
27 Oct 10:01 pm
... license to rent the storage unit. (Presumably the idea was that this would make it difficult to connect the stored items with Johnson.)
Johnson's girlfriend went to the storage business posed as Haroldsen, and she paid cash to rent the unit. ... with a rather enjoyable
discussion of the nature of the reasonable expectation of privacy test, and it then focuses on the fact that Johnson obtained the rental unit
by via unlawful identity theft. The court concludes that this fraud in the obtaining of the ...
15 Feb, 2007 4:01 pm
... outright at the conclusion of his Monday remarks. (2) It is McCarthyism to criticize faculty members at one of the nation's most prestigious institutions for issuing a
statement so extraordinary that it was cited in a defense motion for change of venue, even ... -which, he hastened to add, was not read by even one of 100 students he had sampled. A
good portion of Piot's remarks came almost verbatim from an e-mail distributed by Orin Starn, to which I had previously responded by
e-mail (a copy is ...
21 Mar, 2007 5:01 pm
John in Carolina has two superb posts detailing the agenda behind Orin Starn's Friday conference, for which Duke forked over $2500 to
host. Starn ... game, but this weekend, I'm going to be rooting against you, Duke women's lacrosse team [in the national semi-final against Northwestern]. Regardless of what
slogan you ... secret racists." And Hanif Omar contended that the "ignorant, pompous, misguided" women's lacrosse players-people who were "guilty, themselves, of
stupidity"-embodied the mindset behind ...
23 Mar, 2007 5:01 pm
... crime. That would be obstruction of justice." cnnsi.com legal "analyst" Lester Munson, dismissing the revelation of Reade Seligmann's airtight alibi. Liestoppers subsequently
revealed that legal "analyst" Munson voluntarily surrendered his license to practice law in ... being one of the biggest tobacco tycoons in the South." WNCU radio host (and
Orin Starn invited guest) Hanif Omar, on the decision of the women's lacrosse team to wear armbands expressing solidarity with the three
players targeted by ...
24 Mar, 2007 5:01 pm
... , the paper's ideology-infused journalistic standards remains on display, with Selena Roberts-fresh from her appearance at Orin
Starn's Friday anti-lacrosse hate-fest-returning to the Duke case after a months-long absence. When ... for the prosecutors to have repeated meetings with the accuser to discuss
the events of the evening. "Given some of the questions raised about the accuser's story, they're probably trying to resolve any sort of ambiguity or contradictions. And
secondly, make an overall ...
27 Aug, 2007 5:01 pm
... -published Group members are professors without books published elsewhere. The DUP book thus was or is a critical credential for the candidate's recruitment to,* continued
employment at, or promotion at Duke. This list includes: Ranjanna Khanna (English): 1 book, Dark Continents: ... EAB? A. I recall serving at perhaps different times with Jan Radway,
Fred Jamison, Priscilla Wald, Orin Starn, Anne Allison, Bruce Lawrence, Wahneema Lubiano, Patricia Leighton, Walter Mignolo, Stanley Hauerwas,
Srivanas ...
16 Sep, 2007 6:39 am
... Group of 88 and their allies are moving on to other protesting endeavors. Today's N&O reveals that Anne ("Group of 88 for Credit") Allison and Orin Starn were recently cited for trespassing and given a court ... on the misdemeanor charge. They allegedly planted protest signs in the landscaping
outside an exhibition at the Southpoint Mall. (Yes, this is the same Orin Starn who suggested that the lacrosse players' citations for underage
drinking implied some sort of moral flaw.) Their new cause? ...
26 May, 2007 5:01 pm
... were required by law to disclose everything they knew to the defense, my sister's attorneys were able to adequately defend her. They discovered an SBI DNA ... he gets better
every day. He's a delight to be around." Once again, these are the kind of people Orin Starn, Peter Wood, and the Group of 88 ...
difference in the world. Who else in all this can say that?" --------- Finally, congratulations to the Duke women's lacrosse team, for another great season. The team had a
heartbreaking defeat in the Final ...
7 Jul, 2007 5:01 pm
... Leigh Jester (Art History); Allie Johnson (History); Michelle Menser (Biology); Rachel Sanford (Sociology); and Kristen Waagbo (Cultural
Anthropology). There was no word from Orin Starn on how the performance of such students furthered ... filler photos in all lineups. ---------
The first meeting of the Whichard Committee, charged with investigating the Durham Police Department's mishandling of the lacrosse case, is scheduled for July 20. The lead-off
witnesses will be some of the defense attorneys ...
27 May, 2007 12:09 pm
... also made a name for itself by supporting a combination of political correctness and hostility to athletics that would make Orin Starn
proud. Unlike Duke, Dartmouth allows alumni to elect some of its trustees, and in the past three ... the D.C. Circuit. The second was Justice Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court of the
United States.") It claimed that Smith's opponents embraced "mainstream" ideas. The article then closed with a quote not from the victorious candidate but from Dartmouth
president ...
24 Aug, 2007 5:01 pm
... Honor Roll than any other league institution Chas Salmen of the men's cross country and track and field teams, who organized an Arab-Jewish ... in both academics and
athletics." Who, precisely, would these "many people" be? Perhaps Orin Starn, who exploited the case as part of his campaign to transform Duke
into Haverford. ... give quizzes . . . I give very hard reading." Or Peter Wood, who chaired the CCI's "athletics subgroup," and whose credibility was found wanting by the
Coleman Committee. I don' ...
3 Oct, 2007 3:38 am
Anti-lacrosse extremist Orin Starn took to the pages of today's H-S to proclaim that "there was no need for Brodhead to apologize
in remarks last Saturday at Duke ... e-mail with a Herald-Sun op-ed that read as if it scripted by Nifong's pr staff. After mildly criticizing the DA for possible shortcomings in
his approach ... "Supporter Starn" offered his strongest criticism of . . . the party and the lacrosse team's drinking (without mentioning even one positive item from the Coleman
Committee report). ...
4 Oct, 2007 4:03 pm
In light of the re-emergence of anti-lacrosse extremist Orin Starn, this post by John in Carolina is worth reading. JinC noted that in an
N&O op-ed, Starn "misrepresented what Coach K said and it's very hard" to see how the professor's "misrepresentation could be anything other than deliberate." I agree,
and second JinC's call for an apology by Starn, with a request for retraction.
20 Jan, 2007 4:01 pm
... that we did.' They are unwilling to just say we blew it." And, Abrams pointed out, it's important to "remember, it wasn't just this ad." Professors such as Houston Baker,
William Chafe, Karla Holloway, Thavolia Glymph, Peter Wood, Orin Starn, and Wahneema ... could be happening now -- all squandered." Perhaps one
of the departments that formally endorsed the Group of 88's statement can bring Ehrich in as a visiting professor next fall. --------- The Winston-Salem Journal has an ...
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