I am a Duke Alum Class of 1981. Many of you have followed Duke's Lacrosse story. I am curious as to what percentage of the Vanderbilt community is aware that Houston Baker, probably the second worst actor in this horror show (second only to district attorney Nifong) has left Duke and has joined the Vanderbilt faculty. Baker was a leader of the infamous "Group of 88" professors who took out an ad in the Duke paper "thanking" the protestors who had gathered around the home of the Lacrosse players with signs reading "castration" and "Guilty, Guilty, Guilty." Baker, a member of the Duke English and African American Studies departments, wrote an open letter saying the team "may well feel they can claim innocence and sport their disgracred jerseys on camputs, safe under the cover of silent whiteness (!). But where is the black woman who their violence and raucous witness injured for life? Will she ever sleep again." Anyone taking Mr Baker's class this year might ask him whether the presumption of innocence applies to white people.