June 30, 2006

Black Professors at Duke U. Say Their Exodus Is Not Linked to Lacrosse Scandal; UCLA Administrator Is Back Again; Washington State-Tri Cities Names New Chancellor

By XIAO-BO YUAN and SAMANTHA HENIG

RACE AWAY?: Six African-American professors will leave Duke University this year, drawing speculation that the atmosphere for minority professors has worsened after the university's racially fraught lacrosse scandal this spring.

But the exiting faculty members, along with other professors and administrators, say that the professors' decisions to leave are unrelated to the scandal, in which a black stripper reported that she had been raped and taunted with racial slurs at one of the