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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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 urban diversity 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.

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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?


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.


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.


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 urban diversity 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.

Really no drugs at a southern preppy school? You conservatives are alway pushing your conservative PC point of view.


See, that demonstrates how clueless you are. If Duke were really that conservative, it wouldn't have had a Nan Keohane as its president for over a decade. But, because it has some frat boys along with everything else, you want to treat the school like it's one big lacrosse team. It's idiotic. The peer pressure to conform to a certain image is likely far, far greater at a Swarthmore or Bard.

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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?


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.


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.


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 urban diversity 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.

Really no drugs at a southern preppy school? You conservatives are alway pushing your conservative PC point of view.


See, that demonstrates how clueless you are. If Duke were really that conservative, it wouldn't have had a Nan Keohane as its president for over a decade. But, because it has some frat boys along with everything else, you want to treat the school like it's one big lacrosse team. It's idiotic. The peer pressure to conform to a certain image is likely far, far greater at a Swarthmore or Bard.

I went on a study semester abroad with about 20 kids from Duke. I wasnt very impressed with them. They were not very intellectual and did not seem interested in their classes or studies at all. Duke claims they work hard play hard, but I only saw the play hard aspect of that. I didn't even study all that much, maybe three hours a day, but they would totally tease me when they saw me studying and comment on how hard I worked.

Anonymous wrote:I went on a study semester abroad with about 20 kids from Duke. I wasnt very impressed with them. They were not very intellectual and did not seem interested in their classes or studies at all. Duke claims they work hard play hard, but I only saw the play hard aspect of that. I didn't even study all that much, maybe three hours a day, but they would totally tease me when they saw me studying and comment on how hard I worked.

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Anonymous wrote:They are both too Greek. How about CMU in Pittsburg.

CMU has fraternities.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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 urban diversity 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.

So, you consider date rape "boorish" and not "suitably PC."

Date rate is criminal, but it's as likely at Wesleyan or Oberlin as Duke.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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 urban diversity 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.

So, you consider date rape "boorish" and not "suitably PC."

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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 urban diversity 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.

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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?


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.


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.


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 urban diversity 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.

Really no drugs at a southern preppy school? You conservatives are alway pushing your conservative PC point of view.

Chicago and undergraduates who want to discuss Foucault in a coffee shop are the outliers here, not Duke.

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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?


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.


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.


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 urban diversity 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.