<p>And again - SO popular, influential, and beautiful, only ONE TENTH OF ONE PERCENT of the ranks have been filled. Come to Duke now, while space is available in the D.U.D (for those who do Roman Numerals)</p>
<p>The author of the article actually interviewed me while doing research. Needless to say, my non-inflammatory comments did not appear anywhere within.</p>
<p>I made careful note of what she was writing down and what she wasn't, and I noticed that she would pay particular attention whenever I said anything that could even mildly be construed as a putdown towards any other Duke students while ignoring anything conciliatory or balanced. In particular, she kept prodding me to talk about the previous reputation of the lacrosse team and was visibly disappointed when I denied any familiarity.</p>
<p>I did, however, notice something else. As the questions she asked seemed to indicate, she had come to report on the lacrosse story, and ended up reporting on something that was only tangentially related. I wonder whether she sensed, early on, that there was nothing going on with the case itself -- that it was a dud -- and so shifted her focus to Duke's social scene in general.</p>
<p>I don't know what prompted her to interview me, anyway. Maybe she thought I was one of the Duke 500. :D</p>
<p>500 men plus 500 women is not a small number for en elite group considering the undergraduate population of no more than 7000. It's enough to segregate a community</p>
<p>1.) I'm not so sure that it would be a big deal. So 1000 kids are off doing their own thing. That still leaves you 5400 who are in the mainstream, a plenty large community for finding and organizing whatever you might want.</p>
<p>2.) It's a totally fictional number anyway.</p>
<p>ddzai - I think the point we're trying to make here is there's no such thing as the Duke 500 or anything like it. That article, to borrow words from the Nifong hoax, is a crock - making mountainous statements using less than a molehill's worth of actual reporting.</p>