Mean Sprited Behavior...is this the Norm?

toneranger
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:20:11 +0000

I came across this article about special “shout out” sections that are run once per semester in a college magazine at Penn. There’s not a lot of detail here but it seems most of the comments are mean-spirited and gross - and make for extremely popular reading material on campus. It’s kind of like juicycampus.com in print…and without the names (although it seems it’s pretty easy to figure out who’s who).
Do you think the administration should do anything to discourage or prohibit this type of product? It made me angry just reading about it…but I’m not sure what anyone could do about it. Maybe it’s just a realistic reflection of how mean spirited college kids can be…

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