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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with other posters, Duke has alienated a sizable chunk of moderate and conservative grads. The appeal of Duke was that it wasn’t a liberal Ivy like Brown or Penn. Haven’t written a check in a long time.

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The lacrosse incident hurt, but my impression was that it is now largely in the rear view mirror.  When the incident happened, many alums were incensed.  My daughter was a 2400 SAT scorer 13 5's on AP type.  She didn't choose Duke in 2009. The admissions office called me and asked why not Duke, and if the lacrosse incident was a cause.  I said that it was.  I wasn't political about it, but mentioned that both Terry Sanford and Chancellor Ken Pye would never have permitted students to be treated in the way the lacrosse team was. No idle speculation.  Pye wrote my law school recommendations and I did very well at a top school in large part because I did not want to let him down.   I was a scholarship athlete- poor kid at Duke and harbored some of the biases against the lacrosse team others held. But in no way did this justify the treatment of of those players.

I was bothered by the enormous payout to the three Duke players, too.  What a stupid waste of a valuable endowment.

The assistant development director was a classmate and retired last year,  I think she was competent and well liked.  She started when Sanford hired a guy named Croom Beatty to mold a wealthy student body who years later would give huge donations.  Dirt poor guys like me with high scores and grades and a national athletic profile were a dime a dozen at Duke.  They wanted real wealth, and inn the 90's, that focus really started to pay off.  As far as the recent cuts, it wouldn't surprise me if Duke is now bloated [/quote]

Oh my god get over yourself. The Duke lacrosses incident in 2006? [/quote]

Go pound sand. What you don’t know is that I knew many of the professors involved, two of the deans, and many in the athletic department. It isn’t as you aver about getting over it (you have no idea what you are talking about) but rather the enduring lesson of treating young people well. I come from the perspective of a dirt poor kid with a single mother addict. No home no structure but was able to go Duke at no cost on athletic scholarship. I did well because the people and faculty at Duke cared about me. My honors adviser told me halfway through the program that he cared enough about me to tell me that I wasn’t yet willing to suffer enough ego damage to learn at the level I should. Your comments reflect that poor treatment of students should be trivialized. You do you with your impressive DCUM credentials but schools like Duke can learn from the incident.

By the way do you belong to the DCUM cohort who hates athletes? [/quote]

Does this qualify as your daily pity party? So much drama. And you are devaluing my Duke degree with your poor writing skills. What was your major? What sport did you play?

I don’t think Duke handled it well. I actually feel worst for Coach Pressler who was completely thrown under the bus. But I don’t think this is a reason to have lingering hatred of the university.
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