<p>Before Charlotte even reaches the Gothic campus, Wolfe describes the most identifiable Duke aspect of Dupont: that everybodys just plain-long wild about basketball!</p>
<p>One of the novels main characters is Jojo Johanssen, who bears a name and status strikingly similar to J.J. Redick as the lone white starter on the godlike basketball team. Head coach Buster Roth has a lucrative deal with Nike and an office that takes up the entire floor of one of the tallest buildings at Dupont, just as Mike Krzyzewski occupies the top level of the Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center. For the basketball players, Dupont knocked down a wall between two dorm rooms to increase living space, like the two-room triple in Dukes Basset Dormitory. Of course, to see the team play, seats run at $30,000 a pop.</p>
<p>Still can't figure out why or how a U Penn student knows or cares so much about Duke. Doesn't Penn have any social life at all? Maybe hazmat is only a figment of our imagination. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the legitimate argumentation and nuanced conclusions, hazmat.</p>
<p>I have to say, I'm impressed with the knowledge you have of Mike Kryzewski's doings. Still, Redick is hardly our "lone white" starter, and many schools have "godlike" basketball teams. I bet many schools give their coaches huge offices in high buildings.</p>
<p>Where did you do enough research to become familiar with the Gothic Reading Room and Ninth Street?</p>
<p>Perhaps hazmat applied to Duke and was rejected.....never really seems to let us know if he/she is a student, parent or agitator. Has a lot of spare time to dwell about Duke it seems.</p>
<p>Once there was a tribe far to the South , who rose up to challenge the ruling confederation of tribes known as the Ancient Eight. This tribe, known as the Puff Devils, did everything they could to be accepted by the Great Ones. They passed many tests handed down to them, lured away learned clerics and built great stone edifices equal to those found far to the North. But the Ancient Ones still doubted that the heart of the Puff Devils was pure. This doubt was partially caused by the new tribes excess enthusiasm for the game of ball and hoop. The Puff Devils seemed to sacrifice much of what was sacred to the Great Ones to win at the game of ball and hoop. But the clamor for belonging from the southern tribe wouldnt cease.<br>
The Ancient Eight determined that the question would be decided by a single contest. A contest of the most ancient of games. Many believed that this game of the stick and the net had been a gift of the gods to be used in deciding conflicts between the great tribes of the ancient world. The Puff Devils had recently shown much prowess at this game, making it a fair test. To represent them, the Great Ones chose the youngest of their tribes. This great tribe from the homeland of Odysseus was both strong on the field and virtuous of the heart. As the only one of the great tribes that still learned to grow food they had avoided the temptations of arrogance that had tainted some of the ancient ones.
The representatives of the ancient ones traveled from their home on the great rock heights to the chosen battlefield in the village of the Puff Devils. A great contest was played between warriors of the two tribes. In the end the tribe from the home of Odysseus returned victorious and the Puff Devils were defeated showing that their hearts were not yet pure. Like Apollo, whose wings were melted by the sun, they immediately fell from the sky to once again dwell with the tribes of the mortals. Perhaps they would try again when their hearts were pure and everyone and forgotten their fall from on high.</p>
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As the only one of the great tribes that still learned to grow food they had avoided the temptations of arrogance that had tainted some of the ancient ones.
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Hahahahaha, who wants to guess which "tribe" that is? :p</p>
<p>Bad as it is, this incident had nothing to do with 99.99% of the students, professors, administrators, admissions officers, janitors...at Duke which remains a fine institution of higher education. What school is perfect in all respects? There are bad apples in every basket. Would you pass on Yale because George W. Bush led cheers there? One thing you can count on is that Duke will definitely, absolutely have the best behaved Lacrosse team in the country, so y'all be safe next fall!!</p>
<p>I assume Cornell, which, as we all know, has zero issues with drinking, fraternities, and athletes. And I really <em>do</em> like Cornell relative to most of the Ivies.</p>
<p>Yeah and those DNA results indicate that no DNA from anyone, let alone the lax players, was found on her. Additionally, her DNA was found nowhere in that bathroom, a physical impossibility if she really was assaulted there.</p>
<p>We can all hope that the allegations against the LAX players will be proven false. There is still a process that the prosecutor will follow I believe. Prospective students and parents, current students and parents and all other interested parties will be very happy if the charges against the LAX team members are dropped.</p>