A Down-Low Hater
Posted by sek8 at February 21st, 2006
If you go to Duke, then in the last few days you may have heard about a blog titled the Duke Observer. If you haven’t I will quickly bring you up to date. On Friday, a columnist for the Chronicle wrote a column that brought this blog to Duke’s public conciousness (the link to the blog is below if you want to check it out for yourself). The premise of the Duke Observer is an anonymous frat guy’s musings on social life at Duke. The unfortunate part is that he has nothing good to say about it. His values seem to boil down to sex, status, and possibly “coolness” which is usually just a mix of sex and status. Forget traditional college values like “education,” or “expanding your awareness,” or even just making real friends. According to him these things don’t matter, the only thing that matters is how many people you sleep with, how many STDs you acquire in the process, and perhaps how much money you have. Thats all folks. But my point is this: so much hating has to come from sort of insecurity, arrogance, ignorance or maybe just plan meanness. This is why the “Duke Observer” is nothing more, and will never be more, than a Down-Low Hater.
Visit the blog yourself:
