Patterico's Pontifications

6/21/2006

Clint Taylor on James Van de Velde

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 12:42 am

Clint Taylor has an interesting piece about his former Yale professor James Van de Velde, and how Yale jettisoned him for being a suspect in a murder, despite the lack of any evidence tying him to the killing.

Seems a little trumped-up.

Maybe he’d have been better off if his real-world experience had been with the Taliban, rather than the George H.W. Bush Administration.

2 Comments

  1. Fascinating and tragic story. Having read all the links about the victim, it sounds like an intruder to the neighborhood. A mention of a man and woman fighting, right around the time another student had talked to the girl, is the only clue to connect it to the Yale guy.

    Outside of a possible affair, there’s nothing in the various articles to implicate the professor. Why wouldn’t he sue for defamation or wrongful termination…

    Comment by Vermont Neighbor (a9ae2c) — 6/21/2006 @ 12:40 pm

  2. College bias. Faculty circling around to protect their own.

    My own observation of behind the scenes at a liberal campus was essentially a big charade (by very nice people) promoting the idea of diversity, as long as it matched their pro-minority, ultra liberal way of thinking. I was not enrolled but still harbored ideas of writing a dissertation on something like The White Man’s Contributions to Complex Infrastructure. Just to work with a committee and have them face the reality.

    Comment by Vermont Neighbor (a9ae2c) — 6/21/2006 @ 12:51 pm

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