Word: duke
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Nathans appears to be highly qualified to improve the advising program for first-year students. She is the creator of a much-praised pre-major advising program at Duke University which assigned every first-year to a faculty member advisor...
...first glance, Robb seems miscast in the role of a Klan leader. Like his role model David Duke, the Imperial Wizard turned politician, Robb has traded in his pointed hood and robe for a well-worn gray suit and dingy wing tips. Like Duke, he has altered the Klan's hate-filled message to make it more palatable. Robb's white supremacy emphasizes love for the white race rather than hatred for blacks and other minorities. While Robb lacks Duke's telegenic looks, he shares his flair for attracting attention, and his plans for expanding the Klan's influence rival...
Just a short stroll from Robb's home lies an oak-rimmed pasture, where the Grand Wizard hopes to fulfill his grandiose vision of the future. Shortly after Duke lost his bid to become Governor of Louisiana last year, Robb drew national attention to his idea for building a high-tech propaganda mill, complete with training on how to appear on television, history lessons and political instruction, even a drum-and-bagpipe corps. It would become an assembly line cranking out articulate, blow-dried Duke clones. "They always have these pictures of people in the Klan, flies buzzing around...
Robb was first attracted to the Knights after meeting Duke in New Orleans in the mid-1970s. But his racist roots run deep. Born in Detroit, Robb was the son of a builder and a department-store sales clerk. His family moved to Tucson while he was a teenager. There he devoured his mother's right-wing political tracts and joined the John Birch Society. After studying at a Colorado seminary under Kenneth Goff, a minister with anti-Semitic views, Robb became a Baptist minister, opened a print shop and started publishing his own right-wing tracts and pushing white...
Since then, Robb has taken up where Duke left off, using modern marketing methods to enhance the Klan's image. The Klan sells itself on tabloid TV and on business cards emblazoned with three large red Ks. There is even something for Klan kids: balloons depicting a hooded night rider on horseback. "We're selling white pride, white power, whatever," Robb says. "It doesn't make any difference if you're selling the Klan or used cars or toothbrushes...