Originally Posted by
flyingdutchdevil
While it makes perfect sense, the idiocy comes from Duke CHANGING their policy but continuing to make exceptions for athletes.
I have no issue with Duke having double standards for athletes and non-athletes. Just don't change your policy to reference all students and then make exceptions for athletes. Duke did this to themselves.
Originally Posted by
flyingdutchdevil
Schedules are intense. No doubt about it. And how about the select few biology students who need to wake up at 4am everyday to get to Science Drive to check on his/her experiments? Or the History buff who is working with a Professor/team on some fascinating research and only has access to the rare reading rooms certain hours a day?
If you're doing to make exceptions for athletes, do it for non-athletes as well. And according to the Forde article - which I'm sure is true or not - "In late February, the school informed the incoming freshman class of 2018-19 that it is mandating random room assignments — no more requesting and prearranging roommates. First-year collegians will simply get who they get to live with, not necessarily who they want". To me, that completely says, "we're favoring athletes for housing over non-athletes". Nothing new, but interesting nonetheless.
Yep. It would have been better to have everyone living under the same tent, but variations in "room-mate assignment policy" doesn't scream CORRUPTION or JOCK SCHOOL to me. It's a detail hardly worth mentioning. I seem to remember (and, occasionally, I recall correctly) when most but not all of the freshmen were on East Campus in the early '90s but all the male football and basketball players were on West. That's a ten-times bigger deal and got no comment at the time.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013