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Sue W. attended while I was there and had her Dean job by the time I left. She wanted to pretend she was "hip" and "cool" but she pretty much a puritan.

We in Lancaster House (now Edens 2C) started the "The Lancaster Lip Sync". It was in the best tradition of "Let's have a show". Initially we had about two dozen "acts" with people in costume lip syncing to everything from "Jimi Hendrix" to "The Captain and Tennille" and included the "White Supremes". At first it was a very modest event on the Quad patio with someone's stereo.

By the time I left, it was a campus-wide event up on the Intramural Fields (now the soccer stadium). As usual, there were kegs of beer and a bunch of rowdy people. I remember Sue W. being there and complaining to me, the older grad student who she thought would be sympathetic, about the noise and behavior and expressing the opinion "I wish this event would go away." I guess she thought we should all be in the library. I think it eventually morphed into the Duke "Battle of the Bands" (Ben Folds once performed) and now, apparently, it's completely gone.

Given her predisposition I'm really really surprised that she didn't have the whole lax team on the carpet by the afternoon of 3/14.

"Lip Sync" was a major highlight of the year but held somewhere in the back of "new dorms" (edens, I guess). I remember drinking directly from the spout of a "beer truck".
One of my roommates was the daughter of an extremely well-to-do alumni. He still gives millions to the University. She had multiple issues involving kleptomania, cheating, not showing up for exams etc. (not including her unbelievable records for sleeping with entire frats before moving on to the next, but the admin didn't care about that). She was a permanent fixture in Dean Sue's office but never managed to get into trouble. I'm sure she would have except for who daddy and daddy's buddies were. The stories around the Duke heirs (some I witnessed) was even worse. Depending on who these guys are has a lot to do with what Dean Sue was willing to do to them.
While I was there she was busily moving successful high spirited frats to unattractive housing either on east or in new dorms to bring down their rush numbers. From what I hear she has succeeded mightily. I would be interested if some of the richer frats like the Betas, SPes and SAEs kept their west campus spots. I still think Brodhead was behind keeping all parents out of the loop though.