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...REMIND me again. Why did I go to Harvard?" I asked my companion as we soaked up the sun at Duke University during spring break...
...Duke campus seems to have it all. Beautiful weather, beautiful gothic architecture, beautiful people in beautiful clothes, and a food service system...
After one day at Duke, my Harvard friend and I joked of never returning to Cambridge. But despite the superficial attractions of a USC with academics, Duke is marred by a nasty undercurrent of illiberalism. At the end of our four-day stay, I couldn't imagine spending four years at Duke...
...Duke prides itself on being an oasis of enlightenment in the cultural desert of central North Carolina. A campus gag has it that the theme song in the admissions office is "New York State of Mind...
...campus elite energetically pursues the image of New England WASP wanna-be's. The prevalence of J. Crew clothing--the photos in a recent catalogue were shot on the Duke campus--is a universal joke among students. I even saw one undergrad carry a J. Crew catalogue into a hall bathroom. To the casual observer, much of Duke looks like an Ivy League school with a basketball team...