The other Duke list
Once again, Duke University is in the news, and once again,
the story swirls around sex and sports.
Most of us in Durham are too busy juggling school, work and
family to play big sports or have tons of sex, but stories about little league
and monogamy aren't news. The Duke undergraduate who wrote a
mock thesis in which she rated the young male athletes with whom she had,
well, done various sorts of things is now repenting for brazenly doing what is
usually subtle.
If you ask socially dominant students at any major university
in the U.S., they will know a story about a young woman who has been rated for
her various "abilities" by members of a sporting team on campus. It is grisly
but sadly common. The ratings usually function semiprivately and circulate
among the men.
