<p>Our family had a unique experience last year that does a good job of answering this question. We attented the NCAA Div 1 Lacrosse Championship in Baltimore where 4 colleges gather for semi’s and finals filling Ravens Stadium. Each school has a section of the stadium with mixed sections inbetween. Last years schools (2007) were Delaware, Hopkins, Duke, Cornell. We sat in a mixed area between Duke and Hopkins sections. The difference in the students and Alumni was very noticiable. </p>
<p>The Delaware folks seemed a bit out of place, all wearing the same yellow t-shirt clustered in one section with no-one in the mixed area. Very ordinary, salt of the earth folks.</p>
<p>The Hopkins folks seemed very laid back, and suprisingly quiet and reserved for being the hometown crowd.The student sections were not very loud or wild and the mixed sections were a mix of older lacrosse fans and Alums of all ages. From what I saw, I would catagorise the Hopkins folk as nice but dull.</p>
<p>The Cornell crowd was having the most fun. They either wore t-shirts with the number of a a “lost” player ( died in a game the previous year), or a variety of old lacrosse t-shirts spanning 30 years . They had the biggest hospitality tent and didn’t seem to care who came in for free drinks or pennants to wave. They cheered the loudest, had the best band, and dominated the mixed sections with sheer numbers. A great mix of students and alumni who came from long distances to be there.</p>
<p>The Duke crowd consisted of a fratboys in blue paint, Girls with oversize designer sunclasses and cell phones that they chatted on during the game, and alums who all wore polo shirts with little Duke logos as if they were too high class to wear a t-shirt. Whenever they were losing they would shout at the ref that they would have him fired. When things were going badly they seemed to fight among themselves. When an Holder Hopkins alum in a wheel chair asked some Duke folk to sit down as they were blocking his diagonal view of the goal, they got the whole Duke section to stand up so they could “teach him a lesson”. When they lost in the championship they stomped out early with sour faces cursing.</p>
<p>In constrast,Cornell lost to Duke in the semifinals, and all the Cornell folk stayed untill the end and then the Team went around the field saluting each section in turn as the Cornell crowd cheered wildly, almost as if they had won.</p>
<p>So for my money Duke has the meanest Students</p>