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Moneta: ?Not Really a Topic I?m Interested in Talking About?

By K.C. Johnson

In a recent radio interview, Duke?s Larry Moneta criticized a website called juicycampus.com. Moneta pointed to the site?s anonymous rumor-mongering to describe it (correctly) as worthy of condemnation. Moneta?s outrage about the site prompted an understandable question from panelist Christopher Anderson, who wondered why Moneta hadn?t seemed concerned in spring 2006, when Duke professors and some students embarked on a rumor-mongering campaign against the lacrosse players. ?I don?t see any correlation between the two incidents,? responded Moneta. The exchange is below. I?m puzzled that Moneta struggled to see the connection raised by Anderson. After all, what were Group of 88?er Grant Farred?s unsubstantiated musings about the lacrosse players? ?arrogant sexual prowess? or their having committed ?perjury? if not rumor-mongering about Duke students? Though Moneta might not have done so, surely others would see a link between expressing concern about a website making false, anonymous rumors about Duke students and condemning Karla Holloway?s sending out a January 2007 mass e-mail containing a claim that she either knew or should have known was false: that a secret witness existed who would say there were racist remarks when Reade Seligmann and Collin were at the lacrosse party...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).