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By Shauna
Mar 7th 2008
at 9:58 am EST
See, these same students who are being defamed may be the same kids who end up loading up their 9mm's and running around campus on killing sprees. We need to watch how we treat people...Karma is a B!#&h!!! and motivation is even richer!!!
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Apparently, Gossip isn't Always True and Sometimes it Hurts People
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Matt Ivester of campus gossip blog JuicyCampus.com has posted a call for a ceasfire from posters. Ivester says he's received complaints from people claiming to be defamed. He also calls some of the posts "mean-spirited."
Mean-spirited is an understatment. Some of the comments include slurs based on sexual oreintation, claims that specific students have STDs and other juvenile name calling. I'm not going to link to comments or quote them because I refuse to perpetuate such hate. Which, according to Ivester, is "not Juicy."
Ivester describes "Juicy" as "the topics that are most important, interesting and entertaining to you."
To which I ask, since when has gossip ever been important?
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