Duke defends decision to dismiss Giuliani’s son (random MSM anti-GOP story)

AP via Yahoo! Sports ^ | 9-10-08 | Yahoo! Sports

[wac3rd]

DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s son was properly dismissed from the golf team and was never promised a spot on the squad.

Andrew Giuliani sued Duke in July, claiming he was improperly cut from the team earlier this year and that the coach violated a contract he entered when he agreed to come to the university and pay $200,000 in tuition and fees.

But Duke said in a court filing Wednesday that the 22-year-old Giuliani was properly suspended after throwing an apple in the face of another player, breaking a golf club during a tournament, injuring a teammate and becoming verbally abusive with a coach.

Giuliani’s lawsuit says allegations were fabricated as coach O.D. Vincent III tried to shrink the size of the team.

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[wac3rd]

I guess Rudy's kid has some anger issues...

[presently no screen name]

So Duke is back in the news. Very supportive of their students if I remember correctly./sarc

[Steve_Stifler]

I hope Rudy supports his son in his quest to rejoin the Duke golf team just as much as his son supported Rudy’s presidential campaign.

[presently no screen name]

yeah, I think he said that he was too busy and didn’t want to interrupt his playing time because he was going pro.

[CaspersGh0sts]

“violated a contract he entered when he agreed to come to the university and pay $200,000 in tuition and fees. “

There comes a point when a college education is just a rip-off. Anyone here believe a Duke education is worth $200,000?

You can go just down the road to UNC @ Chapel Hill and spend $22,000 in tuition and fees for 4-years if you’re a North Carolina resident. To be fair, if you limit this to tuition & fees, Duke “only” costs $145,000, almost 7-times more than a UNC education.

[PeteB570]

I’m picking up my daughter at Boone this afternoon for a weekend visit. Just completed her first month at Appalachian.

Other than tuition the “meal card” cost the most :-).

[Locomotive Breath]

I went to Duke, taught at NC State U for 14 years, and am a resident of NC. It depends on your aspirations. What you're paying for at Duke is not the education per se but nationwide access, contacts, and network. UNC is a fine school but due to our legislature's parochial attitude, the only people you're ever going to meet there are other North Carolinians who generally intend to stay in NC. If you want a career in NC only that's fine, but if you want a career that might take you to multiple parts of the country, or overseas, at Duke you'll exposure to a lot broader range of people, and those classmates will end up in positions of influence all over the place which gives you a leg up when you move there or need to know something about that location.

[riverdawg]

Well said. There is an old (Russian) proverb: “you don’t buy your house, you buy your neighbors.” Same thing with a college; private-college the extra tuition at a private college buys you better classmates, not better facilities or better instruction.

[Locomotive Breath]

I’ll add that it’s been reported that Andrew G. was offered an athletic scholarship and turned it down because a) he could afford the tuition, b) because of that it would look really bad for him to take the money and c) he wanted someone else to have it.

The high cost of tuition at Duke is bandied about but a pretty good fraction of the students are on financial aid of some kind. People like Andrew G. are the ones who end up paying full freight and subsidizing everyone else.