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After Duke University attracted months of unsolicited negative national attention in connection with an off-campus party involving strippers, observers might have expected the school to shy away from an event promoting striptease. Nonetheless, Jay Schalin of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy found that Duke actually agreed to host an event promoting the work of professional strippers. News & Observer columnist Ruth Sheehan was just as perplexed about the decision as Schalin, and the story drew national coverage from ABC News.  

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