Profile In Cowardice

In a recent column at mindingthecampus.com, author and commentator John Leo noted that although former Harvard president Larry Summers was given the boot by leftist profs for telling “unwelcome truths,” Duke University president Richard Brodhead would apparently not suffer the same fate after the Duke “non-rape” case.

Leo’s column reviewed Brodhead’s actions, including his firing of the lacrosse coach without “finding that the coach had done anything wrong,” and his refusal “to look at the overwhelming evidence, offered to him by defense counsel, that the boys were innocent.”

“When racist black professor Houston Baker bitterly and falsely denounced the three white players, . . . he said nothing . . .and did nothing when death threats were made against the three.”
Leo finally concluded that President Brodhead’s behavior exemplified “the moral meltdown of a cowardly man.”

Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter. This feature is excerpted from her most recent column.