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-'''Richard Halleck Brodhead''' (born 1947) currently serves as the ninth president of [[Duke University]] and is a scholar of 19th-century American literature.
-==Early life and education==
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-Brodhead was born in 1947 in [[Dayton, Ohio]]. His family moved to [[Fairfield, Connecticut]] when he was six years old, where he attended  public schools. He went on to attend [[Phillips Academy]], where his high school classmates included [[Dick Wolf]] and [[George W. Bush]]. Brodhead graduated from [[Yale University|Yale College]] in 1968 ([[Latin honors|summa cum laude]] with Highest Distinction in the English major). During his senior year at Yale was tapped for membership in the [[secret society]] [[Manuscript Society|Manuscript]] and was granted a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in English from [[Yale Graduate School]] in 1972. He met his wife, Cynthia Degnan, while both were graduate students at Yale.
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-==Career at Yale==
-After receiving his Ph.D. in 1972, Brodhead was appointed an [[assistant professor]] of English at Yale. In 1980, he received tenure and was named Director of Undergraduate Studies in English. By 1985, he had been made a full professor and was named chair of the English department.  He was appointed Dean of Yale College in 1993 and served until 2004. During his deanship at Yale, Brodhead was popular with both faculty and students, and was known as an involved and dedicated dean.  Together with current Yale President [[Richard C. Levin]], Brodhead oversaw a major curricular review at Yale.
-Brodhead's critical works were on such American authors as [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[Charles Chesnutt]], and [[Herman Melville]].  As Dean, Brodhead was involved in the controversy surrounding efforts by graduate student-employees ([[GESO]]) to [[trade union|unionize]].
-In 2003, Broadhead was named a defendant along with, Richard Levin, Linda Lorimer in a lawsuit by Yale professor James Van de Velde after he was accused of murdering a female student. In 2007, A Connecticut Judge reopened Velde's lawsuit against Broadhead et al.<ref>[http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/22835 Yale Daily News - District judge reopens Van de Velde suit<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-==Career at Duke==
-He left [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]] in 2004 to become President of Duke University, succeeding [[Nan Keohane]].
-On Brodhead's first day in his new role, Duke's star basketball coach, [[Mike Krzyzewski]], announced that the [[Los Angeles Lakers]] had offered him $40 million to become their new coach. Brodhead, who had had no previous experience with a nationally-known, star university athletic team, helped avert a crisis by working to convince Krzyzewski to remain at Duke.
-One month into Brodhead's tenure as president, the [[Palestine Solidarity Movement]] (PSM) was scheduled to hold their annual conference on Duke's campus. While this led to opposition, Brodhead approved the conference, citing [[free speech]] and the desire for improved dialogue regarding this contentious issue.<ref>{{cite news
- | first = HELEN
- | last = ECKINGER
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- | title = Brodhead confronts controversy
- | url = http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=3331
- | work = [[Yale Herald]] | location = [[New Haven, Connecticut]] | date = 2004-09-03 | accessdate = 2007-12-27}}</ref>
-Workers' rights became an issue when Duke began to outsource hospital laundry services to Angelica Corporation. This led to complaints that the university was avoiding the responsibility of providing a [[living wage]] for people who do work for the university.<ref>{{cite news
- | first = Bridget | last = Newman | title = Duke's dirty laundry
- | url = http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2004/10/07/Editorialcolumns/Dukes.Dirty.Laundry-1471521.shtml
- | work = [[The Chronicle (Duke University)|Duke Chronicle]] | location =  [[Durham, North Carolina]] | date = 2004-10-07
- | accessdate = 2007-12-27 }}</ref>  Despite demands by student activists organized judgment in the Duke chapter of [[United Students Against Sweatshops]], Duke refused to enter the dispute; Angelica later settled with the [[UNITE HERE]], the union representing the workers, with no input from the university.  Angelica has continued its work with Duke.
-Brodhead announced a $300 million financial aid campaign in late 2005. Its goals are to ensure continued need-blind admissions and meeting 100% of students' demonstrated need.<ref>{{cite news | first = Jane  | last = Stancill | title = Duke wants $300 million: Boost to student aid would be small
- | url = http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/373439.html
- | work = [[The News & Observer]] | location = [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] | date = 2005-12-02 | accessdate = 2007-12-27}}</ref>
-===Duke Lacrosse Scandal===
-Brodhead's actions during the [[2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal|Duke lacrosse scandal]] proved very controversial and garnered much criticism after three members of the nationally-ranked men's lacrosse team were accused of raping a stripper hired to perform at a team party off campus on [[March 13]], [[2006]]. Brodhead stated that "whatever they did is bad enough."<ref>[http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/157148/ Lacrosse Publicity 'Unwished' For Duke, Durham, Brodhead Says :: WRAL.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> while saying "our students must be presumed innocent until proven otherwise," while also talking about the horrors of sexual assault and racism in society.<ref>[http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/03/brodheadlacrosse.html Statement by President Richard H. Brodhead on Duke Men’s Lacrosse Team].''Duke News & Communications.'' 25 March 2006.</ref> On [[April 5]], [[2006]], Duke's lacrosse coach Mike Pressler was fired and Brodhead canceled the remainder of the 2006 season.<ref>[http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2398409 Duke lacrosse coach resigns, rest of season canceled, ESPN]</ref><ref>[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/06/22/duke0626/index.html SI.com Special Report: The Damage Done]</ref> Student body president Elliott Wolf said that Brodhead faced a public perception "that [Duke] simply washes its hands of students." <ref>{{cite news | first = Anne  | last = Blythe | title = Faculty revisits case, Nifong
- | url = http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/573369.html | work = [[The News & Observer]]
- | location = [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] | date = 2007-05-12 | accessdate = 2007-12-27 }}</ref>
-On [[December 20]], [[2006]], Brodhead stated that "the DA's case will be on trial just as much as our students will be."<ref name="Brod quote">[http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/523377.html Criticism directed at Nifong and Duke]. ''The News & Observer.'' 20 December 2006.</ref> On [[April 11]], [[2007]], the [[North Carolina attorney general|N.C. Attorney General's Office]] dropped all charges against the players, declared them innocent, and called them victims of a rogue prosecutor's "tragic rush to accuse."<ref name = "Dropping Case">{{cite news|last=Beard|first=Aaron|title=Prosecutors Drop Charges in Duke Case|publisher=Associated Press|date=2007-04-11|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/04/11/national/a113721D83.DTL|accessdate=2007-04-11}}</ref>  Later, Brodhead apologized to the lacrosse players and their families for the university's "failure to reach out" in a "time of extraordinary peril."<ref>{{cite news|last=Beard|first=Aaron|title=Duke President Brodhead apologizes to lacrosse players, families|publisher=Associated Press|date=2007-09-29|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/720509.html|accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref> Brodhead has been named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed in 2008 by the unindicted members of the lacrosse team.<ref>[http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1968602/ Second Federal Suit Filed in Duke Lacrosse Case :: WRAL.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-==Notes==
-{{reflist}}
-* {{cite book | last = Stuart | first = Taylor Jr. | coauthors = KC Johnson
- | title = Until Proven Innocent:  Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
- | origyear = 2007 | year = 2007 | publisher = St. Martin's Press  | location = [[New York, New York]] | isbn = 978-0-312-36912-5
- | chapter = Chapter 10 - Richard Brodhead's test of courage | ref = Taylor }}
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