File under 'not holding my breath:'
I am sure that my Duke friends who got worked up over the Jalen Rose/Grant Hill thing, and obnoxiously applauded Hill's NYT op-ed in which he defended the awesomeness of being raised by an intact upper-class family and the uniqueness of Duke as an environment that emphasizes the 'scholar' in 'scholar-athlete' will be properly chagrined about that Duke football player who was arrested for trafficking cocaine.
The purpose of the above snark is not to point out that Michigan is better than Duke (though, surprisingly, Michigan has had fewer football players kicked off the team for arrest-related reasons in the last three years); rather, Duke is no different than any other school that has athletic programs.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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