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Monday, May 14, 2007

Update, Duke Grading Business

You never know what settlements really mean, but Duke University has settled with a lacrosse player (he wasn't involved in The Incident) who claimed that a professor prejudiced against lacrosse players unfairly failed him in her course.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:



[The student,] who graduated from Duke last year, has received a grade of P on his transcript for the "Politics and Literature" course he took last spring, indicating that he had passed the course.

No other terms of the agreement were made public....

In January, [the student] and his parents sued Duke and [the instructor], a visiting assistant professor of political science. She taught the "Politics and Literature" class to about 40 students, including [the student] and one other player on the men's lacrosse team.

According to the lawsuit, the two lacrosse players were the only two who received failing grades in the course. ...

The professor had told Mr. Dowd that he had failed the course because of a poor final paper and multiple absences from class.