Soft Dookies

[EasyEd]

Just heard on the radio that, in the future, Duke University will not schedule 8:00 AM classes because it's too early for those fragile Dookies to get up!!

[hoyalove4ever]

Dookies would like for you to think that they go to school at some sort of country club. Unfortunately, the fact that they go to school in one of the ugliest and just plain overall worst cities in the country kind of ruins that illusion.

Waking up late does prepare them for their future jobs, however: pushing papers for daddy until he croaks and they receive their ill-begotten family money to sit on for the rest of their lives.

[HoyaDestroya]

not to be a duke apologist, but the earliest class i ever took on the hilltop was 8:50.

[SaxaCD]

I took an 8:15 freshman year, but I had to check my notebook every day to see if I attended or not, since I went right back to bed until my next class (11:40). It's weird seeing notes for a class you don't remember being in.

[Gold Hoya]

www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/04/19/sleepless.students.ap/

This demonstrates their odd PR hold on the country.

In a 15 paragraph AP story, why does the point that they're adding MORE 8:30 am classes to compensate for the missing 8am classes not come up until paragraph #13?

If they care so much about "sleep deprived" students, how is eliminating 8am classes that aren't really scheduled and nobody signs up for, and replacing them with lots of 8:30am classes that are requirements, going to lead to more students getting sleep? Won't this mean they get less sleep?

And why is this news anyway

[Gold Hoya]

So to follow up -- because I believe in corrections -- apparently AP got the story completely wrong.

www.dukenews.duke.edu/news/story_0404.html

In recent days, Duke has been in the news for getting rid of 8 a.m. classes and fighting sleep deprivation among students.

Both facts are true. However, the two actions actually have nothing to do with each other, despite press reports to the contrary.

[hoyas2getherforeve]

Why do we hate Duke so much? While I went to GU my younger sister went to Duke and while we have friendly rivalry about basketball we had similar educational experiences and similar friends.

[Boz]

That was your sister? God, I hated her!

Just kidding, but if you want to know why for me, that's one of the reasons. No, not your sister, but the students. I stayed at Georgetown every summer in college to work and the interns from Duke were the most annoying, obnoxious a-holes. It didn't help that one year they had just beaten us in the Final 8, but they were like that every summer. I have hated them since then. All the interns from California were really cool, but those from Duke couldn't stop talking about how much better they were, in everything. I got my revenge though, a prank that will go with me and one other GU student to the grave.

For me, that's when it started.


(In fairness, OK there is probably a certain amount of jealousy thrown in as well, but I will never admit that out loud. Anyone calls me on what I wrote here, I can always say someone else was using my computer).

[hoyas2getherforeve]

You are entitled to your opinion!

[Boz]

Sorry, I was just kidding around, particularly in that beginning part.

Admin, please remove my previous ad hominem attack against a fellow poster's sister!!!

I will admit that I now work with a number of Duke grads who are all very nice people, but those interns really Editeded me off way back then.