Duke Status-Centric Culture

bginger
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:06:17 +0000

Mondo, I have a question regarding juicy campus. I found the website last week, went on the Duke section, and was completely creeped out by not only what was said, but by the sheer volume of comments. I went on the sections of a few other schools just for comparison and though the content of the posts was similar, (it was worse on Duke’s section) there were far fewer posts. Just a comparison: when I checked the site Northwestern had 6 pages of posts in the past two months, UVA had 21, and Cornell had 27. Duke had 90. I realize that the site’s creator is a Duke graduate and that there has been a lot of spam posts lately on Duke’s section are two factors that have increased site usage/ number of posts on the site but still…90 pages in the past two months??

(okay, now for the actual question ). The posters on juicy campus paired with some of the posters that used to post on CC (but not so much the ones now…you guys are awesome!), seem like utter jerks. I know that there are people like that at every college and that those people are only a small sampling of Duke students, but are these posters indicative of the general Duke population? I love Duke for its laid-back vibe, but I don’t want to be surrounded by arrogant imbeciles.

Tyler09, I’m really sorry for putting this outrageously long post on your thread, but I thought the topics seemed related. :)