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Juicy Campus is basically the internet equivalent of the comments scrawled on the walls of the bathroom at any high school. It represents a small minority of students gossiping - there's actually very few replies to each post and they appear to be from the same small group of students - so I really don't think they're in any way representative. Posts also are usually intended to anger or titillate, so they're a bit... over the top. I'm not exactly an avid reader of the site, so I can't say definitively, but apparently most other schools are far worse than Colgate. I've never heard anyone actually SAY anything like what's posted on there - anonymity plays a large role in people posting things they would NEVER say to anyone face-to-face. Perhaps it's a different story for others, but I never experienced any of the vicious gossip, clique-ish behavior or superficial nastiness that you see in high school.
The scandal last year was blown way out of proportion - everyone talks about the horrible threat made without reading the actual text - the poster in question was asking what would happen IF he made a threat (they removed the post, but it was along the lines of "I wonder if the school would shut down IF I said that I was going to kill people"), not actually stating that he was intending to or ever would commit violence. It was still not the smartest thing to post given events at Virginia Tech and other schools, but I'm saddened that people might read articles about it and think that a Colgate student was unhappy enough to legitimately want to cause harm to other students or that these events are in any way normal here.
In terms of the social scene at Colgate, I think it's the perfect size. It's small enough that you run into a dozen people you know walking to class, but big enough that you're still meeting cool new people in your class year to hang out with when you're a senior. It's small enough that you can easily just go hang out with your friend casually, but big enough that there's plenty to do and it's not always the same old group of people.
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