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The stories around the Duke heirs (some I witnessed) was even worse.

I verify that.

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.

With the goal of making Main West less of a concentrated party atmosphere and so as to reduce the number of incidents with which she had to deal. So now the parties have been forced off campus and she has this to deal with a serious rape case. Memo to Dean Sue: Study the Law of Unintended Consequences.

I always wondered why they didn't take a small slice of Duke Forest on the other side of NC 751 and make it "Fraternity Row". The national chapters would have built Duke a ton of housing for free and then the frat guys could make all the noise they wanted without bothering anyone but themselves. Free enterprise at work. A concept too difficult to master for the socialist university.

I think that there as been a move for some time to eliminate the frat system and make Duke more "ivy league." When we were there my now husband was Chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee (which I thought was dorky but I married him anyway). They found that when freshmen lived with upperclassmen they tended to stay in school and make better grades. They also found that freshmen living in all freshmen dorms gave more money to the university later in life because they had a larger sense of class unity. The next year Duke moved to putting freshmen in all freshmen dorms and began "dining clubs" where students were supposed to eat with certain professors each night. I don't know if that ever took off but it smacked of the Yale/Princeton/harvard "eating clubs."
There was a certain security in partying on main west that doesn't exist the farther you go from the core of the campus. You can't stop partying but there was always some fear of being caught doing anything too bad on main west.