According to the CharlotteObserver.com, Juicy Campus, a website that fostered vulgar, crass, anonymous gossip among college students, has fallen victim to the recession. The online board, the brainchild of Duke University graduate Matt Ivester, was a popular place for college students to make crude comments about others. Cloaked, naturally, in anonymity.
The website vexed university administrators, many of whom are surely reveling in its demise. It certainly didn't raise the level of campus discourse, what with topics like "Biggest slut on campus" and the like.
Ivester created the website while at Duke. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, one Duke administrator tried, unsuccessfully, to convince Ivester to tone it down. So the administrator, Larry Moneta, Duke's vice president for student affairs, advised colleagues to just let the website play itself out, according to the Chronicle article.
"This is one of the rare occasions in which I got it right," Moneta told that publication. "It ran its course, in some respects longer than I expected. Rest in peace."
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
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