With assault charges against the three players dropped – after a year of slander and false prosecution against them – it is of course time for apologies from many quarters, as North Carolina’s attorney general, Roy Cooper, urges.

An apology is especially in order from the more than 10 percent of the Duke University faculty who, as the New York Post reminds, in a public statement “recklessly” denied the students a presumption of innocence, expounded on their guilt, and rejected pleas that the legal process be permitted to run its course.

University President Richard Brodhead, who peremptorily canceled the lacrosse season and strong-armed the coach to resign just after the initial accusation surfaced, should also climb up on his high horse and beg forgiveness.

But what’s needed above and beyond apologies – which in any meaningful form are not likely to be issued – is an end to the jihad of “race-class-gender” propaganda being drummed into students at Duke and myriad other campuses.

This is the “narrative,” as editors of The Wall Street Journal observe today, in which this saga is rooted. Unless the academy dispenses with its obsession with white male privilege and minority victimization, the Journal warns, “similar miscarriages of justice are bound to follow.”

Can one hope for an end to this poisonous narrative? Probably not. To date, the professors who so scurrilously pre-judged the Lacrosse players remain haughtily unapologetic, stating that “the legal process will not resolve” the allegedly pervasive campus environment of “sexism, racism and sexual violence.”