Duke President Richard Brodhead has apologized to Duke’s lacrosse players. His apology appears less to do with sincerity than as a result of poor publicity and, quite possibly, a decline in alumni financial support, the metric by which many university administrators today judge their presidents. If Brodhead was sincere and recognized his errors, he would apologize to James Van de Velde, the first victim of Brodhead’s ambition and tendancy to let campus politics trump principle.