K.C. Johnson writes a devastating column for the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy today. A few highights:

On March 29, she emailed fellow Durham activists expressing outrage that defense attorneys had (correctly) stated that no DNA match would occur to any lacrosse player. “The self assurance,” wrote Curtis, “in the statement issued yesterday by the team that they will be exonerated by the results of the DNA testing makes me wonder if we’ve gotten the full story about who was at the house that night. Were there others present who in fact carried out the rape and who are being protected by everyone else who was there? How do we know who was there?” …

According to a recent lawsuit, Curtis went well beyond signing denunciatory statements and trying to publicize disciplinary records of Duke students. The lawsuit alleges that she abused her classroom authority against one of her former students, lacrosse player Kyle Dowd. …

To review: in writing, a Duke professor suggested that two students in her class were covering up a rape. The two players then both received an F for their final paper.

Read the whole thing.