As you know, over the past few months we have been reporting on the fallout over the Duke lacrosse scandal as it involved and affected minority faculty. Just recently, all criminal charges against the three former players were dropped. But, said Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University in an interview with USA Today, the case’s ending shouldn’t lull people into believing all is well on college campuses. “This showed us an underbelly of college life,” he said. One of the now exonerated players, Reade Seligmann, said the case “opened my eyes up to a tragic world of injustice I never knew existed.” In an interview with NBC’s “Today Show,” he acknowledged that in most cases it is minorities who are on the receiving end of the justice system’s sometimes unfair treatment.
As we were going to press, the details of the horrible tragedy that befell Virginia Tech on April 16 were still unfolding. We keep in our thoughts and prayers the promising scholars and students whose lives were tragically and senselessly cut short that day. Everyone at Diverse offers their condolences to the university community and to the families and friends of the victims.
Hilary Hurd Anyaso
Editor
Diverse, Issues in Higher Education
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