Guest column misrepresents professor's words

The Chronicle recently reprinted a column from The Daily Princetonian by Brandon McGinley ("Faculty should stand by its students," Feb. 16) that misrepresents and distorts what I actually wrote and said. By so doing The Chronicle continues misrepresenting my language while hiding behind someone else's actual lies.

McGinley quotes two word from my writing and then surrounds those with lies. The piece from which he quotes is actually my criticism of a reading of the lacrosse team players as perfect offenders and my criticism of a reading of the accuser as a perfect victim.

Please refer to the following link to the actual essay so that The Chronicle and its readers can then see for themselves what a distortion McGinley has written. http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html

Wahneema Lubiano

Associate Professor of African and

African-American Studies