Deals have been struck. Kisses have been exchanged. Troths have been plighted. Mutual non-proliferation treaties have been signed. Drake and Chemerinksy are NBFs, reports the LA Times.
Drake traveled over the weekend to Durham, N.C., where Chemerinsky is a professor at Duke University, and the two reached an agreement about midnight Sunday, the sources said.
Cool. All’s well that ends well.
(photo, Duke Law Magazine)
Did Drake have to go barefoot and thru snow?
RloC: Probably, uphill both ways.
Big, big mistake. This will come back to haunt UCI. You don’t hire back someone you fired, even if he never started, and you don’t hire someone who bashed you and called you a liar in the press.
Chemerinksy cares nothing about UCI in comparison to his own popularity with the left and effectiveness of furthering his political propaganda. Check back in two years and see what kinds of problems have resulted.
Oh, well. At least this will give Celeste some free time to take up the causes of conservatives whose education careers were ruined by liberals.
LINK: A black man needing Celeste’s attention for justice
Woody…Almost makes you believe in Karma, don’t it?
What a sad, screwed up, horrible man. (Hey, aside from the crazy, homicidal thing, in college he was an incandescent ball player.)
“Incandescent” ball player? Celeste, almost no one uses that word as you have. Well, O.J. did light up the field at one time, but he became a dim bulb, blew out, and the tower holding him crashed down and landed on someone else. Maybe O.J. and Mark Fuhrman will kiss and make up like Chemerinksy and Drake did–or, they can put on “the gloves.”
Woody – O.J. wants you to “say hello to his little friend”
O.J.’s little friend
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Here is an OP-ED from the Los Angeles Times it’s much better than the one written by the Nutty Professor from UCI.
Debating Iraq? Pop a pill first
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Yes, all’s well that ends well.
It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out though. I wonder who leaned on Drake and how hard – it must have been something for Drake to jeopardize his own position.
I guess intimidation is always great if it comes from the left. Cherminsky is grinning like the cat that ate the canary, or was it the giant rat below? They’ve created a monster ego — thank goodness I’m not a law student there. They’re likely to get a certain type of applicant now.
Maggie, don’t blame poor Erwin C. for my choice of the cat/canary photo.
I bet Drake knew his job was on the line and I bet some big donors – like Bren – passed the word that they were sick and tired of having their name associated with lauchingstock administrators.
RLC, I wouldn’t be at all surprised. One of the Irvine daughters is quoted in the extended LA Times article as diplomatically saying Blake really blew it. And, I know one of the prominent UCI donors myself. (However, I don’t know if he’s given to the law school.) And, although he’s a lifelong conservative, he’s the type who would be appalled by this sort of incident as, despite his personal politics, he’s been consistently supportive of academic freedom.
Plus there were things like the fact that nearly 60 UCLA faculty members signed a letter to Blake, protesting.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1190019769155
Maggie, now I see what you meant about the photo, seeing as the Times used it too. (They didn’t have a photo up yet this morning when I posted this.) It’s not a recent photo. We both nabbed it from a past issue of the Duke Law Magazine. Ooops, this reminds me, I forgot to put up a credit. Will do that RIGHT now.
Celeste: …nearly 60 UCLA faculty members signed a letter to Blake, protesting.
This is the same mentally challenged class as the eighty-eight liberal Duke professors who, as “concerned faculty,” rushed to judgement on the phony Duke rape case with their “listening statement *.”
* In today’s Newsweek, a student at predominantly African-American North Carolina Central carried the Duke 88’s thinking to its logical, if absurd, extreme. The student said that he wanted to see the Duke students prosecuted “whether it happened or not. It would be justice for things that happened in the past.”
(Hey, where was Chemerinksy when these students and their coach needed defending at his own school? Did he or any of the professors stand up for Mike Pressler, the respected lacrosse team coach, when he was immediately fired and the season was cancelled or when the innocent students were being “lynched” by the liberal faculty without any due process? Oh, and where was the ACLU, too?)
Good point, Woody.
Two issues.
1. Nifong was wrong – bad evidence
2. Duke was correct in discliplining the students and relieving the coach. That after hours party violated conduct codes at the univsersity.
I spoke too soon. RLC is absolutely right. As furious as well all are at the scum Mike Nifong, and at the rush to judgment on the part of the administration (which went a bit beyond just appropriate discipline, IMHO)….not one of these things are of constitutional issues. Pressler might have a civil case, but it ain’t a job for the ACLU.
rlc is absolutely wrong, and, Celeste, I’m not going to let you have an out with his phony explanation.
The discipline of the students and the firing of the coach resulted from the immediate liberal uproar over the rape accusation by a twice discredited black woman and because the kids were wealthy and white–not because of a late party. If the party was really the cause (which it wasn’t), why not fire the both the coach and the professors of those students?
But, the truth is the President was pressured by a lynch mob. There were no inquiries or due process. The coach’s contract didn’t matter. He was run off over lies. (If the color roles were reversed, this would be called a Hate Crime.) Why, Coach Pressler didn’t make it two days, while Chief Ward Churchill was retained for another two years! Pressler was the sacrificial lamb.
If late night parties of students would get coaches fired, then the football coach at So. Cal would be gone and Celeste’s cheerleading coach would have been tossed out on her rear.
What D.A. Mike Nifong (DEMOCRAT) did to the accused was CRIMINAL and violated the Constitutional rights of the accused, which all about CIVIL LIBERTIES and CIVIL RIGHTS.
On the ACLU, it takes up capital punishment cases with Constitutional issues of withholding evidence from the defense, which the issue with the Duke students. The only difference is that the ACLU cherishes murderers more than rich white kids (who might be Christians!). Do you think that the ACLU would be involved if DNA tests proved a black murderer on death row innocent and that evidence was hidden?
I’m so glad that there hasn’t been any more late night drinking at Duke since this event, so that the university President and faculty (including Chemerinksy) haven’t had to discipline anyone else. Nope, none at all. Now, do they have enough class to apologize for their overreactions? No, of course not.
So, don’t lie to me and say that there were no issued on civil liberties that the ACLU could have addressed.
What I also want to point out is how inconsistent liberals and leftists can be. They can dump their previous legal positions immediately if they find that the accused is white, rich, Republican, or Christian. Thank goodness for them that bigots from the left are protected by the ACLU.
See my comment above. The ACLU has no issue here.
Back to Chemerinsky. John Eastman, the Conservative Dean of the Chapman U. Law School announced today that Erwin will be the Commencement Speaker at Chapman Law this year! In making the announcement he said he looked forward to the “Freeway Series” between Chapman and UCI which he said woulds be good for the OC.
(thanks to Kevin Roderick for this note in LA OBSERVED)
Then the ACLU has no issue with DNA evidence in murder verdicts, does it, rlc?