Duke Kunshan Mascot

[hallcity]

Duke Kunshan has decided to go with a different mascot than a Blue Devil, a deer.
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[Edouble]

Please provide context. No idea what Duke Kunshan is.

[bundabergdevil]

Please provide context. No idea what Duke Kunshan is.

Our partner university in China.

[CameronBornAndBred]

我们去鹿吧

[hallcity]

Please provide context. No idea what Duke Kunshan is.

Try this link. BTW, while looking for this I came across the fact that their teams are to be called the Trailblazers. Don't know how a deer represents that name but it's probably a Chinese thing.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Try this link. BTW, while looking for this I came across the fact that their teams are to be called the Trailblazers. Don't know how a deer represents that name but it's probably a Chinese thing.

Well in that case...

让我们一起去开拓者队

[wilson]

*wet blanket alert*

I've always had some funny feelings about partnering up with an institution so closely associated with a regime for whom the notion of academic freedom is anathema.
This feels like a cash grab along the same lines as the NBA watering down its stances on human rights, or Hollywood backing down and altering content, to appease a giant market.
I don't like it.

[Bluedog]

*wet blanket alert*

I've always had some funny feelings about partnering up with an institution so closely associated with a regime for whom the notion of academic freedom is anathema.
This feels like a cash grab along the same lines as the NBA watering down its stances on human rights, or Hollywood backing down and altering content, to appease a giant market.
I don't like it.

I think if Duke could go back in time, they wouldn't do it. But they thought they were being pioneering at the time, and too much time/money has been spent already to backtrack. It seemed like the vision was a fairly broad equivalent university, but it has become more niche.

[OldPhiKap]

More importantly — is their football coach on the rumored short list for Texas A&M too?