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<p>I don’t think anyone is saying Duke is “a terrible place” or that it’s worse than other schools. The point is that Duke’s PR machine plays up Duke’s “scholar-athletes” as Bill Bradley types, potential Rhodes Scholars and unquestioned “character guys”, and the public guzzles that stuff like Gator-Aid—when, in fact, Duke’s recruited athletes are in many cases mediocre students at best and no better or worse than other schools’ athletes in the character department.</p>