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Should Duke relocate?
Topic Started: Oct 18 2010, 08:59 AM (325 Views)
Quasimodo

If reforms can't be made which will make Durham safe (and welcoming) for
Duke students...

and if out-of-state students in particular are not welcomed by the local community...

then there is another solution.

Should Duke consider moving out of Durham?

Despite the outragousness of it, there are some positives.

- Duke programs & students could lead the design and logistic efforts

- Lots of new smart construction projects for both the university complex and housing.

- Tremendous economic stimulus for the new community.

- The relocation plan could become a model for the country if other major relocations were required due to disasters.



Duke without Durham is still Duke

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Quasimodo

Quote:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperdine_University

Pepperdine University

By the 1960s, the young college faced serious problems. The area around the Vermont Avenue campus developed issues with crime and urban decay. . . The situation exploded in the 1965 Watts Riots. In 1969 activists in the Watts area threatened to burn down the campus; however, they were talked out of it after all-night negotiations by then-President M. Norvel Young. In addition, the Vermont Avenue campus was running out of room to expand.

In 1967, the school put forth a multi-campus idea that would move the undergraduate campus to an alternative location; a committee formed and looked at numerous locations, including sites in Valencia, Orange County, Ventura County and Westlake Village. Pepperdine favored the Westlake Village location until the Adamson-Rindge family, who owned hundreds of acres in Malibu, offered 138 acres (0.56 km2) of Malibu land; despite concerns over building costs on the mountainous site, the school decided to move forward based on its prime location and potential for raising donation. On April 13, 1971, the university broke ground to commence construction and in September 1972 the Malibu campus opened for student enrollment.


17 months from the start of construction to the opening of the new campus...
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MikeZPU

My one son is a high school senior and looking into colleges for
next year. He's looking for the right combination a Division I
swim team he can make and an outstanding engineering program.

To my shock, I saw one short list where he included Duke.

I didn't say anything to him, but I talked to my wife.

She knows my passion about the gross injustice of the Lacrosse frame,
but I also wanted her to understand what a dangerous situation it is there.

There is a deep-seated, long-standing STRONG resentment of the
out-of-state white Duke students by many in the Durham AA community.

There is also a strong resentment by many in the liberal Duke faculty
of Duke athletes. (My son would be a swimmer, another sport that tends
to be heavily white for whatever reason.)

And the Duke administration would rather throw their students to
the wolves rather than stand up to either the Durham community
or the liberal Duke faculty.

There is NO way that my son will go to Duke -- zero probability.
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Quasimodo

From today's Chronicle:

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And if you think it might not be worth Durham’s time to make Duke safe, think again.

According to the most recent economic impact statement released by the University (2006-2007), we’re worth about $3.4 billion to the city. Half of the University’s nearly 40,000 employees are Durham residents. Students spent $113 million in the city that school year. Visitors to campus spent another $313.6 million.

Keeping Duke safe is not only good politics, it’s also smart economics.


All those outsiders can take their money and go elsewhere if they aren't wanted in Durham...
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