<p>Haha Im not addressing the truth or this issue at the moment Hoya. I couldnt care less about this girl or her sexcapades. And I have no allegiance to Duke at this point in time, so for me, the truth is not “hard to swallow”. Im simply pointing out that you lurk on this board and ■■■■■ all over the place, for no reason at all, except to try and make others miserable because you somehow seem to be unhappy with your life decisions and decide to take it out on others.</p>
<p>This scandal kinda makes me want to go here lol.</p>
<p>@ HoyaSaxa: If you disliked Duke so much, why do you keep coming back to the Duke threads? You seem to praise Georgetown so much, so I don’t understand why you waste your time on the thread of the school you disliked, especially since you claim you are in medical school. Shouldn’t you be studying Grey’s Anatomy instead of coming to this site?</p>
<p>I do agree Duke has problems with its mainstream social culture. And I know a lot of fellow Duke students agree. However, there are many other ways to have fun on campus, and very few schools have perfect social scenes.</p>
<p>@HoyaSaxa: No idea why you are always on these Duke threads bashing the school. </p>
<p>Both Duke and Gtown are great schools that are about the same caliber…not sure if you were rejected by Duke but give it a rest. </p>
<p>Why is it that Gtown folks have such a safety school complex? Every time I visited friends there so many students would spend half their time bashing HYP, etc. Even when I would mention that I went to Penn people would start bashing it and then you’d find out they were rejected. Admittedly even my friends who went there mentioned that there was a big safety school complex there…who the **** cares…you went to a good school…it makes no difference 5, 10, 15 years down the line where you went to school.</p>
<p>Nope, whartongrad, transferred from Duke to Georgetown, and turned down UPenn three times (freshman, transfer, and med school). your comment is interesting because it was Duke where I experienced far more inferiority complex students, not Georgetown.</p>
<p>omg dook sux omg georgetown is the best omg omg im teh smartest one i rejected penn 3 times omg and i go to jhu med school omg everyone at dook has an inferiority complex omg they all break the law omg omg they all have problems omg they’re all pretentious racist homophobic snobs.</p>
<p>Everything hoyasaxa says can be summarized in the above paragraph.</p>
<p>^^ like .</p>
<p>uh… since when did gtown even compare to duke?
one thing- guys, don’t go on bashing hoyasaxa on why he is ■■■■■■■■ around here. Try to understand. Clearly, he is insecure about his decision transfer decisions. I’m sure he got a lot of “you transferred FROM duke TO georgetown? ***, why?” and he prbably started, although i’m sure he will deny it, doubting his choice. The only way he can make himself feel more comfortable is to ■■■■■ on duke boards to “prove” that Duke sucks and hence, that his choice was right. By constantly bashing Duke, he is justifying the fact that he transferred out of it and went to georgetown.</p>
<p>Yes, tell yourselves what you need to. No need to justify my decision. You all asked, and you don’t like what you hear; reality is hard to swallow sometimes. By the way, most people choose Hopkins med over Penn med, “lesdiablesbleus” (you’re so multicultural!!).</p>
<p>The “current scandal” is not unique to Duke. A ranking of sexual encounters similar to the one being discussed was published by MIT female students in 1977. Before the internet, an incident like this probably would die a natural death. Unfortunately for the woman involved in this current episode, this list may live forever.</p>
<p>The hookup culture is also a problem at other colleges. Princeton has also had this issue:</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> Alumni Weekly: Princeton and the hookup culture](<a href=“http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2009/03/04/pages/7001/index.xml]Princeton”>Princeton and the hookup culture | Princeton Alumni Weekly)</p>
<p>I would hazard a guess that there are other campuses with similar issues.</p>
<p>@hoyasaxa: OK, let’s play along for a second and say that you’re right. What’s the purpose of you even posting that anyways? Along with the other crap you’ve posted in the past? There’s a Georgetown thread. Go there and praise the almighty Georgetown (no disrespect to the school, /sarcasm) so we’ll be happy minding our business and you can feel good making prospective Georgetown students feel good, instead of ■■■■■■■■ around here bashing Duke for no apparent reason other than your own insecurities.</p>
<p>Exactly what Golfer said. Hoya, no one has a problem with you disliking Duke. Its just that you seem to always bash Duke, and no one has ever heard you praise Georgetown in any way. It just leads us all to believe that you either severely regret your decision to transfer and are trying to justify it to yourself, or just hold some grudge against Duke for no apparent reason. Either way, you could be doing a lot more good by just sticking to the Georgetown threads and using your posts in a more positive way.</p>
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I think this is the main difference between the study you cited and the ‘scandal’ that occurred recently</p>
<p>Perhaps this is one area in which Duke has failed to prepare its students for the realities on the ground (or rather, in the cloud, as it is). But then again, failing to properly educate its students about privacy on the internet is by no means a problem unique to Duke but rather systemic in today’s world unfortunately.</p>
<p>Okay, so this is in response to the people who may feel less inclined to apply to/attend Duke after this scandal:</p>
<p>Last April when I was choosing colleges, I did read a lot about the Lacrosse Scandal and that one article in the Rolling Stones about the hook up culture here. And to be honest, it did freak me out, and I really had kind of a negative impression of Duke from that. But now that I’m here, I can say that I have a really different perspective. </p>
<p>Yes, a lot of people here party. It’s college. The people that party to the extent described by the Rolling Stones or hook up as much as Karen Owen, are (it seems to me) a small minority. Partying is big here, but I wouldn’t say the majority party here more than people party at say, WashU or Penn or Amherst or other such colleges. </p>
<p>And the party scene is honestly not a big deal. Nobody really cares if you party or not. I don’t party, and I don’t really get any pressure to go to parties or take part in the hook up culture. I’ve made friends with people like myself and we are all quite happily oblivious to this other side of Duke. And though I also have friends who party every weekend, again, it’s not a big deal. They party on weekends without me, but I still can hang out with them at other times. </p>
<p>Duke is really what you make of it. If you go hunting for wild parties/hook ups, yes you will find them. But if you’d rather stay away from that side, it’s really quite simple. (Especially for freshman, since freshman live on east campus, and all the parties are on west campus). You’ll find people like yourself whichever side you go looking for.</p>
<p>The average student at Duke definitely parties more than at Wash U/Amherst/Penn. I would venture to say 90% of the people in a Greek organization besides Psi U and/or a selective living group party AT LEAST 2 nights a week. I would venture to say this constitutes about 45-50% of the population. Even out of the independents, at least 1/3 of them go out that regularly even if we are being conservative. </p>
<p>So, at the BARE MINIMUM, 2/3ds of Duke parties on the weekends. I would say maybe a 1/3 also parties 3-4 nights a week depending on their commitments for the week. I think this is an extremely positive aspect of Duke by the way. Part of the appeal of the school is its social life and the outgoing nature of the student body in comparison to peer academic institutions.</p>
<p>On the flip side, I do have friends who abstained from drinking till they turned 21 and others who simply don’t like to party a lot. Being a frequent partier, that doesn’t affect my view of them in the slightest bit. I do feel like they are missing out on an quintessential part of the college experience though.</p>
<p>^So inspiring.</p>
<p>^srsly…?</p>
<p>I love that Duke kids party. Thats why I want to go there - I get a great education and get to have fun at the same time. Hoya, I guess you just hate fun, and hate for others to have fun too. Hope you enjoy your miserable, boring life.</p>
<p>I definitely concur with NCBoy1. Great education + Great time in college = Happy/Well-rounded student. The epitome of how college should be.
Sorry that you’re depressed about life, hoyasaxa, but frankly, no one cares.</p>