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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
wow do you have a warped view of the world
Yes yes EVERY private university is 100% filled with rich frat boys who's fathers are white imperialist capitalists. All the students. ALL OF THEM spend 4-6 years drinking beer and groping women only to graduate to a seat on the board of the largest companies on the planet where they proceed to oppress all the brown people on the planet.
You morons need seriously to read aloud what you type once in a while because you sound retarded and insane. I won't go into the fact that about half of Duke students receive some kind of financial aid or the fact that the total costs are equal to an out of state student attending the PUBLIC U of Maryland or that Duke helps underwrite what is one of the biggest hospital facilities in the world.
Please take your sidewalk faux Marxist class struggle I'll have a double latter and please dad pay my cell phone bill horseshit somewhere else.
-- Stephen Rifkin
Stephen, first of all, I went undergrad to one of these top private schools and now go to one in law school. and in case you didn't, yes, many people are VERY spoiled. Not every single one, but then again, let me ask you, how does one get recruited for one's lacrosse skills to go to Duke? You think that regular old public high schools have lacrosee teams? Only the very richest public ones, and many of the private ones. So that's an inference from the facts right there.
and now i present to you the product of 10 minutes of googling:
Reade Seligmann
Prep
Three-year letterman at Delbarton School ... two-time all-conference, all-state and all-America pick ... finished career with 84 goals and 42 assists as Delbarton won three straight state championships ... also an all-area and all-county selection in football as a halfback.
Personal
Son of Kathy and Philip Seligmann ... born March 3, 1986.
NAME: Reade Seligmann. No. 45.
AGE: 20. Born March 3, 1986.
EDUCATION: Delbarton School, an all-boys prep school run by Roman Catholic Benedictine monks in Morristown, N.J. Sophomore at Duke.
FAMILY: Son of Kathy and Philip Seligmann. From Essex Fells, N.J.
VITALS: 6-foot-1, 215 pounds.
PLAYING EXPERIENCE: In high school career had 84 goals and 42 assists; Delbarton won three straight state championships. At Duke, played in six games in 2005, with 2 assists; before this season was canceled, played in six games, scoring 1 goal. No career starts for the Blue Devils.
Collin Finnerty
NAME: Collin Finnerty. No. 13.
AGE: 19. Born Aug. 10, 1986.
EDUCATION: Chaminade High School, a Catholic boys school in Mineola, N.Y. Sophomore at Duke.
FAMILY: Son of Kevin and Maryellen Finnerty. Brother Kyle is a senior at Duke. From Garden City, N.Y.
VITALS: 6-foot-3, 175 pounds.
PLAYING EXPERIENCE: In high school had 18 goals, 10 assists as a junior and 48 goals, 22 assists as a senior. At Duke, played in four games in 2005 season; before this season was canceled, played in five games, with 2 goals and 1 assist. No career starts for the Blue Devils.
DURHAM -- By all accounts, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann are the kind of Duke students that acquaintances least expected to be facing charges of rape and kidnapping.
Both are products of well-heeled families in toney New York City suburbs and exclusive prep schools. Still, they mixed well with their classmates at Duke, where fellow sophomores described the two players' arrest and suspension from Duke Tuesday morning as "surreal."
Finnerty, 19, from Garden City, N.Y., on Long Island, lived in a 15-room, 7.5-bath house with a market value of $2.4 million, according to Nassau County tax records. A lacrosse net and equipment were visible Tuesday in the yard, which abuts a golf course.
Seligmann, 20, grew up in Essex Fells, N.J., where the median household income is nearly $148,000 and multimillion-dollar homes abound.
His parents, Kevin and Mary Ellen Finnerty, were among donors to the purchase and renovation of a house as a Catholic student center at Duke. The house, at 402 N. Buchanan Blvd., once was the home of Duke football coach and stadium namesake Wallace Wade and later a parapsychology institute. It is two blocks from the house where the team party that gave rise to the charges occurred.
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-725828.html
So, it seems these boys could have gone to Rutgers and SUNY/CUNY for their public state education, but instead were recruited for their lacrosee skills (read herald sun article) from their catholic prep schools.
Yes, half of all students at most schools like Duke get financial aid, but that usually just means loans, for which almost anyone who wants loans can qualify (people sometimes take federal loans as hedges for investments). Most people don't get need-based scholarships -- those are VERY limited. So, no, it's not like 50% of all the student body at these schools are underpriviledged folk who can't afford college. Especially at a school like Duke.
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