<p>It seems like the recent rape scandal involving Duke is much more publicized and serious than I previously thought. Are any of your parents worried about it? </p>
<p>Even if YOUR parents aren't worried, other accepted students' parents will. This might mean a smaller enrollment statistics or even a less competitive class of 2010. </p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>In a nutshell, It won't affect mine. at all.</p>
<p>Since I'm on the waitlist, I'm sort of hoping it will have an effect on decisions to enroll. It will be interesting to see.</p>
<p>I have an Up-Close P-Frosh coming to stay with me tonight. I'm sort of interested to see how she feels about it and what she says about how it's affecting/not affecting her decision. I think it'll be an interesting challenge to be a Duke student trying to do some convincing damage control - because the truth is, this really isn't that representative of what Duke is like overall, and it would really be a shame if it were the deciding factor in someone's decision. Especially if it means the student chooses a school where he/she might not be as happy just because of this one thing.</p>
<p>it actually makes me wanna attend there even more</p>
<p>well my friend who was almost commited to Duke lacrosse is having second thoughts about attending but still in adeciding phase to see how things kinda pan out......but if it was me it would not be a decision at all....too bad im not even in Duke's league</p>
<p>it's one thing reconsidering if you are a lax player and would be directly affected by any sanctions imposed on the team - makes sense to go somewhere else not embroiled in scandal right now in that case.</p>
<p>It's another if you are just an average joe student - I really hope this doesn't affect too many people's decisions because really, it could happen anywhere.</p>
<p>if it happened</p>
<p>I'm still going!! My philosophy is, if it did happen, hopefully those students will be punished so severely that it will prevent anything of the sort from happening in the future, while there still remains the fact that they haven't even been proven guilty yet. The only reason this rape is being so publicized is because of how great Duke is. If you'll notice, all the news reports state that Duke is an elite university, a model of academic excellence. One suspected rape won't change that. Most of the newscasters are probably just jealous that they didnt attend such a prestigious institution. FYI- there was a rape at UPENN last year and a senior at Anapolis was convicted of rape early that year- proof that this does, sadly, happy on many college campuses, Duke was just the unfortunate target this year.</p>
<p>you honestly believe this sort of thing can happen in a place like Princeton? Yale?? c'mon now, sure, this sort of scandal could take place in state schools, and even party ivies like penn and cornell, and other party schools like duke. but there's no way a rape scandal would happen on an HYP campus.</p>
<p>Chlor, I sincerely, truly hope that you were joking.</p>
<p>fyi- maybe not the same situation but rapes do in fact happen in two of the schools you just listed:</p>
<p>At the speakout after our Take Back The Night march, a Duke grad student who went to Yale for undergrad got up to speak. She said how amazed she was that the march was taken so seriously at Duke and that everyone on the campus really respected it - even if they did not participate (just to throw this out there - we had frat boys, athletes, sorority girls, and all the rest of our lovely little typical "stereotypes" out there marching and chanting with us). </p>
<p>She then went on to say that when they tried to do TBTN at Yale, guys would hang out the windows above wbere the speakout was taking place and scream things like "Dyke," "I bet you were begging for it," "Slut," etc. The Clothesline Project, a national project where survivors and secondary survivors of sexual assault make t-shirts with messages on them, was displayed and respected on our campus all of last week. She said that when they did that at Yale, people would rip down the t-shirts, spray paint derogatory messages on them, etc.</p>
<p>Just thought that was worth mentioning.
College kids are college kids. Everywhere.
Yale, Harvard, Duke, State School, Community College.
End of story.</p>
<p>my friend is not going to Duke a large part due to the scandal. her parents just didn't feel comfortable letting her enroll there.</p>
<p>"my friend is not going to Duke a large part due to the scandal. her parents just didn't feel comfortable letting her enroll there."</p>
<p>Talk about some naive people!</p>
<p>Their loss.</p>
<p>I don't see it could affect someone's decision at all. Duke is a fine school and the incident that happened does not reflect on the student body, campus safety, or the administration in any way that should make one worried.</p>
<p>truthfully, my teachers got very scared for me when they learned about this scandal. I'm black and not very used to racism even though I live in a predominantly white area and this whole thing just blew me away. So now everyone at school is like, "Don't go to Duke...go to Penn or Dartmouth." but lets be real....racism happens everyone and even though I may have never experienced it, i'm not naive enough to think that I won't have a run-in with someone who they don't like my skin color. Deciding not to enroll at Duke is a way of letting the ignorants win. If I love that school, I will go there, period.<br>
...btw; on my visit down, very happy to experience a vibrant black community that is very supportive of one another. did not get to see that much interaction between races, but that better change when I get there b/c I love people, not colors.
...another btw; not all white people down there are bad b/c I met a white woman at my job (Northern VA) who lives in Durham. After 5 minutes of conversation, she gave me her number and address and told me to drop by anytime I wanted this summer and next year if I needed a home away from home. Southern hospitality to the fullest.
Peace.....</p>
<p>Duke's not a very racist school, from what I know about it. I don't know why this incident would make you think otherwise.</p>
<p>Runawa - love the post; the quote "but that better change when I get there b/c I love people, not colors" is just perfect</p>