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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...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Blue Devil Blues | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...Duke campus seems to have it all. Beautiful weather, beautiful gothic architecture, beautiful people in beautiful clothes, and a food service system...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Blue Devil Blues | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Blue Devil Blues | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Blue Devil Blues | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Blue Devil Blues | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

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