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Your claim to not have called for Duke's destruction is false. You have repeatedly (and I mean f'ing repeatedly) ranted that no one should send their kid to Duke and all the kids that are there should transfer out.

So what happens if they gave a university and no one came? If a prof speaks in an empty classroom and no one is there to hear it is it a lecture? You make a desolation and call it reform. To save the university we had to destroy it? That's how you'd rectify the situation? How can someone start sending kids to Duke at sometime in the future, "after the problem is fixed", when Duke no longer exists.

I guess you used up the ten posts I gave you before and I didn't notice. Let me take care of that now...

Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est
Duke delenda est

There now. You can skip your next ten posts. Oh - your pony called and he's tired of his one trick and would like something different.

Students are a fungible commodity. Duke can always fill up its classes and with students with a record every bit as good.

I promise you that Duke is being given an incentive to address this issue. The power is in the alumni and they are pissed. Read upthread about the Development Officer threatening to resign.

And read Donna Shalala's remarks about her situation. She may or may not be true to her word but a message has already been sent about how to NOT handle a situation like this. And in her case the guilt of the athletes was far more clear.

"If you worry so much about Duke basketball that you can not live with any criticism of Duke,"

Find me one posting in the six months I've been posting on this issue where I "worry about Duke basketball" (whatever the hell that means). You can find plenty of postings where I have been harshly critical of the administration. Your solution for fixing the problem is wrong in that it wouldn't actually reduce the student population and even if it did it WOULD destroy Duke. So what I can't live with is your stupid solution. But since you're obviously a Duke hater from way back your duplicitous motives are completely transparent to everyone here.

By the way, I hope you noticed the posts about the former lax players who are in med school and graduate school for biomedical engineering. I'll bet they were special admits because both those organizations are known to give preference to athletes. And those two athletes are the rule and not the exception.

p.s. just for fun see if you can do a post without an ad hominen attack.