[Locomotive Breath]

2. Duke University's desire to get more students on campus. Duke recently built a "green" dormitory they had trouble filling with students because, like other "green" buildings, the toilets had to be flushed several times, the electricity was iffy, etc. Duke students forced back onto campus would be required to pay a pretty penny to Duke to live on campus. Thus, Duke turned a blind eye to what DPD was doing to intimidate students. What DPD and Duke did not count on was . . .

This conflicts with their recent clear efforts to drive the party scene off campus. To be precise, their efforts were to decrease the party scene ON campus which produced the predictable result of increasing the party scene OFF campus. But we both knew this.

[RecallMoran]

Duke most definitely pushed the party scene off campus, and the result was predictable and inevitable. That happened a long time ago (not long after the drinking age was raised to 21). What the recent press reports suggest is that Durham finally got sick of dealing with what it considered to be Duke's problem. At the same time, Duke built these dormitories that were at less than capacity. In other words, Duke cowardly foisted the party problems on Durham instead of dealing with it itself, and when those problems got out of control off campus, turned a blind eye as Durham cracked down and made life miserable for Duke students. Duke and Durham PD played this little game because it was in both their interests for the last few years (as evidence by the threatening letter to students living off-campus, Gottlieb's arrest records, etc.). What changed was Nifong.