wfu v. duke

All you need to know about Wake Forest as opposed to Duke is illustrated in this Vanity Fair article on Harold T. P. Hayes, the best editor ever of Esquire and a fellow alumnus of Wake Forest University. Hayes was up against Clay Felker, a graduate of Duke, for the position of managing editor, and their divergent world views are summed up like this:

"Hayes wanted Esquire to be a magazine of ideas—politics, science, law, religion, sophistication. Felker saw power—and the powerful—as his unifying theme."

So, yeah, Felker/Duke: status quo and ass-kissing; Hayes/Wake Forest: the progression of civilization.

I think you could also make a similar connection between, say, Tim Duncan and Christian Laettner.