Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the blame can be laid at the doors of Duke's residential fraternities on West Campus, which physically and socially segregate minorities from the elite white-boys who live there. In the Theta Chi house, I saw only one minority. A glance at a decade's worth of group photos revealed only lily-white faces...
...similarity ends at appearances. I don't intend to tar the entire Duke student body with one brush, as my criticism is directed at a specific group of Duke institutions and students. But in four days at Duke I witnessed more incidents of overt racism, sexism and homophobia than in two years at Harvard...
...residential, and Black students are concentrated in apartments on Central Campus, about half a mile from the residential frats. "Blacks realize how important it is not to be segregated. But the residential frats are not socially enticing to Blacks," said Joby Branion, Assistant Director of Admissions at Duke...
INDEED, by all indications, the racial climate at Duke should be exemplary. The number of minority students has increased dramatically over the past four years, from about four percent in the class of '89 to almost 10 percent in the class of '93. Duke even has a standing organization, Interact, devoted to improving race relations...
...despite Branion's apologia for Duke's fraternities, I cannot believe that allowing virtual residential segregation on campus helps broaden the intellectual horizons of the fraternity members. The diversity of the student body is wasted when the snooty whites can band into incestuous, insulated fraternities...