CAIC leaves Ivies, comes to Duke for first time

In its six years of existence, the Chinese American Intercollegiate Conference has traveled exclusively through the Ivy League, from Harvard to Yale to Columbia. When sophomores Xinfeng Hu and Edward Chu made a bid at last year's CAIC to bring the conference to Duke for the first time, they knew exactly the ivy towers they wanted to topple. "They tell us we're up against Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, but we got the bid because of the argument that we needed to bring the conference where it was needed the most," said Hu, co-chair of this year's CAIC.