Duke students to protest fraternity’s ‘racist rager’

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@collegealum314

First Goldenboy says that Duke people are not arrogant, and then he appears to counter the negative associations people have by listing positive traits. Implying that extroversion is a positive trait infers that it is more desirable than introversion. That is, on the sliding-scale from introversion to extroversion, introversion would be the “negative” trait.

Reread my post again. I was just saying adamantly that arrogance was not a common trait that I would associate with my classmates and then listed some traits that I did find that they possessed more commonly. I agree that “extroversion” isn’t necessarily positive, but then again it isn’t necessarily a negative characteristic either.</p>

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@cobrat

I sincerely hope not. Despite being an extrovert myself, I wouldn’t be too happy at any higher-ed institution without a diverse group of people…including introverts.

I obviously didn’t meet all 6,600 or so undergrads at Duke during my time there; I can only comment on the 100 or so that I knew that I had at least an acquaintance-like relationship with. I’m an extrovert myself so that may explain why I didn’t know too many introverts. It wouldn’t make much sense for any college with a reasonable population to lack a sizable group of introverts.</p>