Newsweek: Duke: A Rush to Judgment

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2007-09-05 02:21

Article here.

More insight on the new book, "Until Proven Innocent". A book I plan to purchase tomorrow. The book review doesn't seem too positive. Excerpt:

"The authors make the Duke faculty look at once ridiculous and craven. For months, not one of the university's nearly 500-member faculty of arts and sciences stood up to question the rush to judgment against the lacrosse team. So much for the ideal of the liberal-arts university where scholars debate openly and seek the truth. ("This book provides one interpretation," says Duke spokesman John Burness.) The only group that shows any common sense in "Until Proven Innocent" is the student body. Aside from a few noisy activists who assumed the players were guilty, Duke undergrads mostly overlooked the political correctness of their professors."

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Do you mean the review says the book is innacurate or not a good read, or something? I don't see any hint of either in the column. In fact it seems not so much a review, as the columnist picking a few factoids from the book, and then giving us his own opinions about them (not that he's wrong).
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Wed, 2007-09-05 17:55

I re-read the article and for some reason I orginally missed the premise behind it.

Axolotl writes: "Do you mean the review says the book is innacurate or not a good read, or something? "

Good point. Though I am intrigued regarding other opinions on movies, books, and music.

anthony

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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2007-09-06 00:42