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(06/09/05 4:00am)
Duke costs too much. Of course we are getting a world class education, and it costs that much at the Ivies, right? Wrong. Duke University is apparently intent that a Duke education cost as much as possible—or at least as much as the Ivies. So rather than sitting around being charming and waiting until Duke is old enough to start growing ivy, I suggest we tighten our Bible belt and put Duke on diet. Here are ways in which the University should cut some costs and, in doing so, change the modern American concept of the elite private university: