Jonah, point taken on the Nifong Scandal. But the actions of Dukeโ€™s president, Richard Brodhead, to eschew due process and punish the team is another scandal, all the more so since Brodhead, while Dean of Yale, prejudged guiltโ€”again to diffuse a case with possible town-gown overtonesโ€”and, in the process, both ruined the career of popular lecturer James Van de Velde and disrupted an investigation into a still-unsolved kidnapping and murder of a Yale student. That Brodhead repeatedly puts public relations above justice is a sad reflection on his judgment and leadership.