Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Atlantic Magazine Takes On (down) Duke

The Hazards of Duke:

Something ugly is going on at the university—a mercenary intensity that has been gathering strength for the past two decades, as the institution made the calculated decision to wrench itself into elite status by dint of its fortune in tobacco money and its sheer ambition. It lured academic luminaries—many of them longer on star power than on intellectual substance—built a fearsome sports program, and turned its admissions department into the collegiate version of a head-hunting firm.

1 comment:

palejoe said...

Yeeaahh FUK DOOK!!! WOOOOO

*vomits, passes out behind Pantana Bob's*


I read that whole article and don't miss college at all. Duke may be super-saturated in that douchey date-rapey Lacrosse culture but you can find that same bullshit in spades at UNC and all the way down to my crunchy Quaker Alma mater, Guilford College.