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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could someone please take a moment to focus on the question about the social climate at Duke in particular.  Would an intelligent, active, but reserved student enjoy the social life at Duke?[/quote]

Have multiple family connections to Duke.  It's big enough that people who want to explore quieter interests can do so happily.  Keep in mind this is one of the most selective universities in the country with a fair amount of outreach to minority students and others who diversify the campus.

On the other hand, if the student in question is the type who would affirmatively recoil at seeing frat boys being frat boys, or would take issue with the mere fact that there are sororities on campus, Duke is not a good place.    [/quote]

Actually, you might recoil at what frat boys being frat boys do these days.  My nephew, a Dartmouth student who is not an introvert at all, but a very social kid and a varsity athlete, has been disgusted by some of the stuff he's seen at frat parties at Dartmouth.  Binge drinking and date rape are not just good fun.   [/quote]

You don't need to look at Dartmouth to find examples of boorish behavior.  You can find it on campus at Duke.  But a university is a larger environment where people can seek out different activities and ways to spend their time.  Quite honestly, I think there's a huge double standard at work here, propagated by the typical DCUM posters who insist on [b]urban diversity[/b] for adults, but think homogeneous liberal campuses are the only way to go, and who get upset about boorish frat boys at a school in the South, but turn a blind eye to rampant drug use at small LACs in the Northeast, so long as the school is suitably PC. [/quote]

Urban diversity?  Are those code words?

Its really ridiculous to say there is some kind of consistency her for northeastern SLACs, I've read plenty of threads lately about southern schools, state schools, whatever. As for drug use, I think the point is that drugs AND alcohol are at all schools but there are degrees.  DC had no interest in the schools with particularly druggie reps nor in schools with reps for heavy alcohol use.

Its not a double standard.  OP asked about two specific schools.  If there are issues with alcohol, its relevant.  if there are issues with drugs at other completely different schools it has nothing to do with this thread.[/quote]

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