<p>CGM - Rolling Stone!!! paaaleeeeseee - all one has to do is consider the source LOL</p>
<p>Read the article, please…just read the article, then we can talk</p>
<p>Please cite any examples of false RS articles?? It is considered a serious magazine. It is not the Star.</p>
<p>Interesting link DukeEgr. It is amazing how students want to document these behaviors in a public manner. I guess the LAX players don’t look seem so aberrant for taking pics on their camera phones —at least they didn’t post them on the internet (at least I don’t think so). Remember when we just instructed our children not to ever put anything in writing they wouldn’t want to come back and bite them? Well now a picture is worth a thousand words?</p>
<p>Just because its in RS, doesn’t mean its not true…the pictures are just swell</p>
<p>So, tell me after reading the article if Duke doesn’t look really bad</p>
<p>And if the student in it really care about their school</p>
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<p>I’d like to see where anyone blamed you for Duke looking bad. What I see are people criticizing you, and rightly so, for drawing generalizations and hurling insults at the entire student body.</p>
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Speaking for myself, I don’t blame you for Duke looking bad. That article presents an aspect of Duke that does and should look bad. I disagree with your statements extrapolating the behavior chronicled in that article to DUKE as a whole. The methods for discussing that behavior with those students is decidedly out of the purview of this bulletin board. Refusing to accept that the article encompasses all of Duke is not.</p>
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Agreed - the author of the article and the people quoted and portrayed in it are responsible for such a portrayal and I certainly never meant to imply that I held you - or anyone but those people - responsible for such a portrayal.</p>
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Well, the idiots in the article are getting it at school, a venue they actually participate in. I’m attacking what I perceive to be your generalizations, not you personally.</p>
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My personal opinion tracks yours (though it is different from some who have posted on this thread) - I find the people in that article “tacky, gross, and icky.” But not to the point of saying
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<p>I have read it - and I take it exactly for what it is - and what it is NOT - short sighted - broad brush crap - with a tad bit of truth thrown in to explode the masses into believing that most/ALL students at said school participate and zealously portraits and exploits the whole school - not the small percentage who are actually guilty of this behavior. </p>
<p>One could still replace the name of Duke for alot of other schools - and have the exact same article - ooo with changes of names for sure.</p>
<p>DukeEGR - You might want to add another gem from the lax thread:</p>
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<p>MKM - it is amazing what this era of high tech has done to explode into the public eye - the internet certainly has changed the world - and in many not so hot ways. ALot of our young just don’t ‘‘get it’’ - once it is out there - you can’t take it back - they don’t seem to understand the consequences of alot of their actions. In our generation - it was the phone and passing notes in class to get the grit of what was happenin. How times have changed.</p>
<p><a href=“http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/05/16/scav_hunt_party_in_c.php[/url]”>http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/05/16/scav_hunt_party_in_c.php</a></p>
<p>Another shining example of the nasty behavior of some - not all - college students - on the web - for all to see - and it is NOT at Duke!!</p>
<p>Another example - the college students in the recent hazing incidents - several teams involved - again - NOT at Duke!!!</p>
<p>Again - the actions of a few…</p>
<p>Uh, big difference between the ScavHunt party and the hooking up sluttiness of the Core Four/Fab Five.</p>
<p>So, if others are doing tickytacky stuff, it lets Duke off the hook?</p>
<p>Here is my take- Duke comes across as HSs with alot more booze, the same kind of cliques, the “popular” ones acting all trampy, the “jocks” making fools of themselves, the "frat"boys and girls just representing the school in all its glory</p>
<p>My D had enough of seeing that kind of behavior in HS, why would she want to go to a school were the culture is such that hazing, NIGHTLY drunken parties are attended by the best of the school…what does that say about the school…</p>
<p>In California, we have schools that have bad reputations, yes we do, and I wouldn’t defen d them either</p>
<p>CGM - a question - what do you think of all the students who DON"T participate in this type of behavior?? Are they still to be blamed as well?? Where do they stand in your relm of things?? Don’t they add any positive sway to the mix at all?? or are they damned as well - just because they attend a school where a certain piece of the population pie may have less morals than the bigger piece of the pie itself. Just curious…</p>
<p>doesnt harvard have a porn magazine?
I think you take a lot of highly charged adults- add liquid and what you see is what you get-some segments of our whole society are pretty much out of control- universities like Duke are just the canary.
I guess this must be the fault of those who want homosexuals to be free to marry other homosexuals- after all if Pat Robertson gets a look at Dan Savage in a dress- why- he might leave his wife!
thanks for the link to Uchicago- it was fun to see one of my Ds friends quoted.</p>
<p>I know several girls (and their families) in different sororities of the Core Four. I find it very difficult to believe that every single member of these groups participates in this behavior. I find it even more difficult to believe that behavior like this would strictly be limited to Duke.</p>
<p>I go to Cornell and we had a playboy party, too. We also had most of the themed parties mentioned there. The behavior in the article is definitely not exclusive to Duke. We have a huge Greek system and most of the same stuff goes on between the fraternities and sororities. Yes, I’m in a sorority, lol.</p>
<p>At Harvard there’s a yearly foam party (Mather Lather). I don’t know what goes on at it. I avoided it this year because last year’s party-goers, I hear, ended up with a rash. I guess the foam’s not that good for you.</p>
<p>And yes, we do have a slightly risque magazine called H-bomb. I would hardly call it porn, though.</p>
<p>Brown U. does the “Sex Power God” party every spring, and this year it was on Fox News.</p>
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