<p>i wonder what this means for other schools’ alcohol/fraternity/sports team policies. Right now i think every leader in higher education is thinking 'look how easily something like that can happen, we have to avoid this kind of thing on our campus"</p>
<p><a href=“Bloomberg Politics - Bloomberg”>Bloomberg Politics - Bloomberg;
<p>Why is it assumed that the reason Duke’s applications were down was because of the behavior of the lacrosse team? In the light of their vindication, which took place in part last December, the actions of the administration and some faculty members have been far more reprehensible. An instructor took personal vengeance by flunking two members of the lacrosse team who were in her class. Grades were reluctantly changed on appeal and she is being sued. The president fired the lacrosse coach and made it appear as though he had resigned. The administration told the lacrosse players not to seek legal counsel as while ushering the Durham police on to campus. Duke’s women’s lacrosse team was castigated for supporting their male counterparts. Perhaps some applicants are put off by the administrations rush to judgment and their failure to give their students the presumption of innocence. Others may have been put off by the liberal activist group of 88 that has yet to apologize for their actions in wrongly defaming the lacrosse players. And, yes, some may be put off by the jock/frat culture at Duke.</p>
<p>I think that all the negative publicity(in both ways) has hurt them, plus their Bball team, which has drawn apps hasn’t been playing like Duke the past couple years.</p>
<p>Administration acted shamefully in 2006.</p>
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<p>oh i hardly blame the lacrosse players, like i said, i think it’s dangerous now that what is (and someone is in denial if they think it’s not) generally prevalent behavior on most college campuses is now helping to damage an entire academic program, and i’m worried about the backlash among other universities towards this type of behavior.</p>
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The people I met at Blue Devil Days didn’t seem put off at all. Then again, they had the excellent sense to apply to Duke in the first place. ;)</p>
<p>We received more applications (19170) for 2011 than Yale (19060) and Princeton (18891), by the way. I would hardly call that “not faring well.”</p>
<p>Apps per spot is more appropriate than apps total. And you didn’t do as well there.</p>
<p>yeah, nyu gets the most applications in the country… does that mean it fares as well in admissions as harvard?</p>
<p>it’s also about quality of applicants, yield, etc. in addition to apps per spot</p>
<p>Of course, if those guys hired a stripper, they are not such a nice piece of work. And neither is a mother who would strip. But the young men don’t deserve to be falsely accused of rape, in a disgusting race-baiting project of the left!!</p>
<p>That article was so biased. MOST colleges (with the exception of a few like University of Chicago) have a party culture. Trying to portray Duke as an inferior university simply due to a underage drinking is ridiculous.</p>
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Selectivity and popularity are not the same. A difficult concept to grasp, I know.</p>
<p>^^ apparently harder for you than me
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