Duke University President Richard Brodhead is admitting he mishandled the Duke lacrosse players case. He is apologizing to the players and their families for not supporting them more during their ordeal.

He says he was partly influenced by Nifong’s certitude about evidence in the case, and admits he should have distanced the university from the faculty denunciations of the boys. But he is doesn’t mention how much PC views of white men, black women, athletes, fraternities, etc., governed the whole debacle, as well as fear of the anger of some of the blacks in the community.

According to the article, “Brodhead said the university is planning a national conference of lawyers, educators and student affairs leaders to discuss how schools should deal with students facing serious criminal charges.”

Do we really need a national conference on this? How about recommending that the president of a university make a speech as soon as any incident arises, quelling all calls for lynching and cries of Nazi and such, and explaining how our justice system works on the idea of innocent until proven guilty and insisting that the college behave in accordance with that.

The Duke episode should be made into a play or TV movie or documentary.

And by the by, don’t forget, Brodhead is the kind of person who would be in charge of hiring and firing if tenure didn’t exist. Do you see a big improvement there? Most administrators are as much if not more in thrall to PC than professors. Most of them don’t even have a residual attachment to the discipline they studied in graduate school, since they gave it up to become full time administrators for the rest of their working lives. Many contemporary afdministrators never even had a discipline, but majored in some kind of management or administration.