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Topic Started: Feb 1 2009, 07:54 AM (1,214 Views)
MikeZPU

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Feb 1 2009, 06:21 PM
I could have lived more happily if I had not had to visualize again Burness getting a massage.
:roflmao:

My sincere apologies for bold-facing the bizarre comment
made at the end of Burness' statement.
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http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/010209/depgar.html


Under the Gargoyle
The Rankings Game: Who's Playing Whom?
By John F. Burness


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Quasimodo

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Feb 1 2009, 07:56 PM
http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/010209/depgar.html


Under the Gargoyle
The Rankings Game: Who's Playing Whom?
By John F. Burness


Duke magazine still feels comfortable in running an article by Burness?

Who is the editor? Why did they select Burness?

Isn't that sending a message?

And when has Duke magazine run a full examination of the lax frame--including the relationships of faculty to students, Duke to Durham, etc.?
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Feb 1 2009, 07:56 PM
http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/010209/depgar.html


Under the Gargoyle
The Rankings Game: Who's Playing Whom?
By John F. Burness


John "Oink, Oink" Burness.

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Six new members joined the Sanford Institute Board of Visitors in July, while John F. Burness, Brandon H. Busteed, Sam Heyman, Philip Lader, Rachel A. McLaughlin and Emily J.Loney completed their terms of service.
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/news/newsletters/focus08_08.pdf Summer 2008

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Duke News: Campus and Community Through the Camera Lens
Spring 2009

Instructors:
Stephanie Shyu and John Bailey

Faculty Advisor:
Professor John Burness


Dates / Times:
Fridays; 1/16/08-4/17/08; 4:00pm-5:30pm

Location:
Kilgo Quad and Cable 13 Studio (Behind the Bryan Center)

Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to combine the theory and the practice of television news.
The course is designed to explore journalism principles and concepts as well as provide a
hands-on learning environment in an actual news studio. We will explore the journalistic
aspects of news, such as news gathering and fact checking, as well as the technical
aspects, such as filming and editing. This course will delve into the questions that
journalists face on a daily basis in the industry, such as bias and ethics. We will also look
at what makes the industry of broadcast journalism unique and how television news
survives among other programming. As technology will be a central in the course, we
will also discuss how new and improved technologies are changing the relationship
between multimedia and news.

At each meeting, we will start of with a discussion of the reading topics and move onto
applying what we’ve read in the newsroom. As we learn journalistic values, we will
apply them in our news productions. The course will see an idea through to a finished,
tangible product. Application of journalistic values and technical skills will result in a
weekly news segment aired on Cable 13 so students may immediately see the direct
product of their work.


Grading / Attendance:
A passing grade in this course requires satisfactory completion of all assignments of this
course including two 750-word essays, attendance, and other required individual
exercises. Students must attend at least eleven (11) class sessions. Attendance at fewer
than 11 classes will result in the assignment of a failing grade.


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Off thread--but probably not deserving of its own. At least it has to do with the consequences of Burness-like bad mouthing.
The local paper today reprints Janet Maslin's N Y TIMES review of John Grisham's THE ASSOCIATE. In describing the hero's willingness to sell his soul to the devil she says he was blackmailed: "Quicker than you can say, 'Duke lacrosse team,' Bennie brings up an ugly college episode that involved Kyle, his Duquesne University fraternity brothers and a woman named Elaine who now claims to have been raped by four of them at a party." It sounds as if Grisham may have been playing on "Duke" and "Duquesne," but in the review there is no obvious reason for Maslin to mention the Duke lacrosse team--and certainly no reason for her to mention the team as if it had been guilty of rape. With people like Maslin "the Duke lacrosse team" is becoming shorthand for rich white athletes who got away with rape, I am afraid. And there is nothing the lacrosse players and their coach and their families can do to clear their reputations in the perception of the public. The firing of Brodhead, with reasons stated, would be a start. And the banning of Burness from the campus.
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Feb 8 2009, 01:58 PM
Off thread--but probably not deserving of its own. At least it has to do with the consequences of Burness-like bad mouthing.
The local paper today reprints Janet Maslin's N Y TIMES review of John Grisham's THE ASSOCIATE. In describing the hero's willingness to sell his soul to the devil she says he was blackmailed: "Quicker than you can say, 'Duke lacrosse team,' Bennie brings up an ugly college episode that involved Kyle, his Duquesne University fraternity brothers and a woman named Elaine who now claims to have been raped by four of them at a party." It sounds as if Grisham may have been playing on "Duke" and "Duquesne," but in the review there is no obvious reason for Maslin to mention the Duke lacrosse team--and certainly no reason for her to mention the team as if it had been guilty of rape. With people like Maslin "the Duke lacrosse team" is becoming shorthand for rich white athletes who got away with rape, I am afraid. And there is nothing the lacrosse players and their coach and their families can do to clear their reputations in the perception of the public. The firing of Brodhead, with reasons stated, would be a start. And the banning of Burness from the campus.
I am reading the book now. Up to chapter 6. The "DUKE LACROSSE CASE" is specifically mentioned at least one time within the first 5 chapters. Reading the book up to where I am now, I can understand how someone can make the mistake of interpreting the LAX case as a possible rape especially if they know nothing about the actual LAX case.. The words "Duke Lacrosse Case" are used as is.
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chatham
Feb 8 2009, 04:41 PM
Payback
Feb 8 2009, 01:58 PM
Off thread--but probably not deserving of its own. At least it has to do with the consequences of Burness-like bad mouthing.
The local paper today reprints Janet Maslin's N Y TIMES review of John Grisham's THE ASSOCIATE. In describing the hero's willingness to sell his soul to the devil she says he was blackmailed: "Quicker than you can say, 'Duke lacrosse team,' Bennie brings up an ugly college episode that involved Kyle, his Duquesne University fraternity brothers and a woman named Elaine who now claims to have been raped by four of them at a party." It sounds as if Grisham may have been playing on "Duke" and "Duquesne," but in the review there is no obvious reason for Maslin to mention the Duke lacrosse team--and certainly no reason for her to mention the team as if it had been guilty of rape. With people like Maslin "the Duke lacrosse team" is becoming shorthand for rich white athletes who got away with rape, I am afraid. And there is nothing the lacrosse players and their coach and their families can do to clear their reputations in the perception of the public. The firing of Brodhead, with reasons stated, would be a start. And the banning of Burness from the campus.
I am reading the book now. Up to chapter 6. The "DUKE LACROSSE CASE" is specifically mentioned at least one time within the first 5 chapters. Reading the book up to where I am now, I can understand how someone can make the mistake of interpreting the LAX case as a possible rape especially if they know nothing about the actual LAX case.. The words "Duke Lacrosse Case" are used as is.
Grisham knows about the Frame. He's read UPI, or at least he's reviewed it.

“Brutally honest, unflinching, exhaustively researched, and compulsively readable, Until Proven Innocent excoriates those who led the stampede—the prosecutor, the cops, the media—but it also exposes the cowardice of Duke’s administration and faculty. Until Proven Innocent smothers any lingering doubts that in this country the presumption of innocence is dead, dead, dead.”
—John Grisham


http://www.amazon.com/Until-Proven-Innocent-Correctness-Injustices/dp/0312369123
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