<p>Does anyone else get a bunch of people saying, "Oooh watch out for the lacrosse players!" when they hear you're going to Duke? </p>
<p>Oy vey.</p>
<p>It's so friggin annoying.</p>
<p>don't worry about it... I'm from Durham and all my friends (most of whom are UNC people none-the-less) know the real deal and arent caught up in media spin... basically any joke about it when talking about where im going was started by me.</p>
<p>Anyway... I love this thing that Brodhead said: <a href="http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/04/rhb_alumni.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/04/rhb_alumni.html</a>
No one I would rather have as my President.</p>
<p>Wow, that's inspiring. I'm really proud to have such a president. Whenever people mention the lax incident to me, I just shrug it off. They're playing on overused stereotypes...</p>
<p>Yeah, I've been getting a lot of that from my friends and teachers. It's, like, uh, I know, and not everyone there is like that.</p>
<p>yes it's sooo annoying!!!!!</p>
<p>Actually, yeah I have got that. The words are more like "stay away from the lacrosse players like the plague," lol.</p>
<p>But people are most like, "wow, you're going to Duke!" :)</p>
<p>Heh, I, too, am from Durham. I drive by the "house" every day on the way to my school a block a way. You have no idea how entertaining it is to see all these national media people day in and day out scrambling over themselves trying to find something new to photograph and talk about on a daily basis. It's like this little microcircus. There are so many other issues to focus on. I have friends in other ethnic and socioeconomic groups in Durham and many of them don't even like or care about the attention this is getting. This has become a platform for a few to pontificate and speculate and accuse. Duke has long worked with Durham to forge a bond and to have all these outside people come in even before there's been any kind of trial or anything is just stupid.</p>
<p>People at my school don't talk about it anymore, at least when we aren't waving at the helicopters circling overhead.</p>
<p>That speech is so inspiring. President Brodhead=the man.</p>
<p>And yes, I'm getting pretty annoyed at all the lacrosse comments. </p>
<p>One guy at my church asked where I was going to college.
I told him I was going to Duke.
He cocked an eyebrow and said, "You can't go there. I don't want anything to happen to you."
I replied, "I already sent in my deposit."
He said, "I'll pray for you."</p>
<p>Well, people get swept up by sensationalists media and are basically mentally deficient... I mean we DID reelect Bush.</p>
<p>I had 7 people tell me in one day not to join the lacrosse team (I don't play lacrosse at all). So, yes, its getting kind of annoying.</p>
<p>It is funny that I have had less of it than anyone and I'm right here... it's because if you are actually here you know what its really like I guess.</p>
<p>What annoys me more is how everyone thinks they are being oh so funny and unique with their "Don't join the lacrosse team" jokes, as if I haven't heard them from anyone before.</p>
<p>ohmygod I totally agree. I just feel like saying, "At least at Duke people come up with <em>original</em> jokes. Jeez."</p>
<p>Still hasn't stopped me from plastering everything I own with Duke something or anothers.</p>
<p>I've just embraced the whole scandal, and regularly wear my duke lacrosse t-shirt to school. It really takes people a long time to make a connection between the shirt and the scandal. It's a good laugh.</p>
<p>I live on Long Island - which, as you probably know, is where one of the accused lax players is from. I just came home for the summer about 2 days ago, and it's amazing how different the atmosphere is here as opposed to Duke. I went to the library today wearing my Duke T-Shirt and driving in my Duke bumper-stickered car, and - I kid you not - someone actually pulled up next to me at a red light and when we made eye contact, he pointed to the back of my car and shook his head. I don't know if he's just a UNC fan or something, but I'd be willing to bet it was a lax reference. Not only that, but I got two random people in the library and all of the librarians behind the checkout desk asking me "What's it like down there?!" as soon as they saw my t-shirt. My mom then confirmed for me that ever since the incident, every single person who knows she has a daughter at Duke/sees her wearing a Duke shirt will ask that exact same question. People care a whole lot more about it here than they really do down in Durham - it surprised me quite a bit. Just take comfort in the fact that once you're at Duke, everyone else there knows the real deal about what most Duke students are really like.</p>
<p>Do you think the yield rate will hold up for the Class of 2010?</p>
<p>Absolutely not.</p>
<p>I dont think a lot of places yield will hold up this year with so many people applying so many places... I dont think the lacrosse thing will have much of an effect truthfully. It obviously could have swayed some people because normally people that get into Duke have other great options and any little thing can push it to one side or the other. Still, anyone fickle enough to get swept up in such a pitiful media circus isnt much of a loss to me personally.</p>
<p>Yeah and I'm sure we'll be getting a lot of cool people off the waitlist who really are just as qualified as the people who got in originally.</p>
<p>Haha, I'm one of them Fizz379. A few of us on here who have gotten in off the waiting list really want to go to Duke!</p>