<p>When I was a student at Harvard Business School a strategy for shutting people down was to make demeaning comments. I found it distasteful then, and even more-so now. Age and education have never been prerequisites for wisdom. Curvyteen, has initiated an interesting and informative dialogue that has attracted a substantial number of comments and substantially more readers. While I may not fully agreed with all of the concerns and conclusions, the synthesis of the fact pattern is credible and deserves to be treated respectfully. I am delighted to have seen Curvyteen return to the forum un-cowed, and look forward to her continuing contributions to this and other threads. </p>
<p>With regard to the original topic, although Duke was derailed in the short term from becoming one of the group of most elite universities in the US by the lacrosse scandal, I expect over the medium to long term each region will be represented and the group will include HYPS, Chicago and, almost certainly, Duke.</p>