Two Down - Three To Go

     April 29th was the last day of classes at Duke. Nan has a week to correct the final papers of her students and submit their grades.  Duke has an interesting tradition on the Last Day of Classes.  They hold a day-long party on West Campus which starts at 9:00 AM with a breakfast on the Main Quad and ends with a Midnight Snack at - well- midnight.  In between, the schedule called for such activities as the Chapel Climb(which I believe is a climb up the stairs to the tower of Duke Chapel), Bocce Ball & Cornhole(I know what the first is, but don't ask on the second), Inflatable Jousting(I again have no idea), and a "Grease" Sing-Along(You're the one that I want -oo, oo, oo). The feature event is an evening concert, which this year featured Dev(?), Hyper Crush(?), Ludacris(Ah ha -one that I recognize), and Rudy Currence(?).
      The other featured event appears to be the consumption of alcohol.  Actually alcohol other than beer is not permitted. As the published rules state: "no wine, hard alcohol, Joose(?), 4Loko or other similar beverages(?)".  The punishment for getting caught with one of these prohibited beverage is - having to pour the contents out.  Lest you think the students might be deprived, the rules state that a "student may have a maximum of six 12 oz. cans on them at any given time".  I assume if you get caught with 7 or 8 you might be required to . . . pour the contents out?  For a school founded in the Methodist tradition, which generally frowned on the consumption of alcohol, this is a very tolerant policy.
     Anyway, for Professor Mullenneaux forty-two, twelve page papers await.  Here's a shot of her after her last class.

      East campus of Duke is the portion of the campus reserved for freshman.  For those not wishing to partake of a festive, alcohol-oriented West campus LDOC(Last Day of Campus), one could get a flight in a hot air balloon.

     While Nan was correcting papers, I went to a couple of Duke sporting events.  The first was the ACC lacrosse championship game  Duke v. Maryland

      Duke lost 11 - 9.
      I also went to a Duke v. Virginia Tech at the Durham Athletic Park.  Duke has an on-campus baseball stadium, but plays over half their games at the home of the Durham Bulls.  One of the games I actually played in when a member of the Oneonta Red Dragon baseball team was against Virginia Tech.  It was a spring baseball trip in April, 1968.  As I remember the trip we played VaTech, Washington and Lee, and Lynchburg.  We went in private cars, and had to drive back through Washington D.C. the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.  I remember we had to be diverted through D.C. because of rioting. Of course it didn't help that we were 6 white boys in an out-of-state car. I sure we might have been viewed with some suspicion by the D.C. police

    Duke won 3 - 2