Monday, January 19, 2009
feature writing- more like dried out campus
I thought that when I graduated high school, the juvenile drama that came along with the territory would end as well. Little did I know, I was actually graduating into another stage in me life exactly like my last, only with an older age group and alcohol. Florida Southern High School, excuse me I mean Florida Southern College, seems to contain more drama than ever before. Now, I understand that every stage in a persons life will contain mishaps and confrontation, but when you live with practically the same 2000 people for four years, that level of drama is only intensified. Normally, the gossip travels by word of mouth, which means in about 2-3 days everyone else knows your business, but now thanks to one of the worst inventions ever, Juicy Campus, anyone can find out gossip in a matter of seconds. I just don't see the point of such a crude and degrading website. If I had to guess, it is mostly female dominated, which makes the whole situation even worse. As women, we should not be degrading other women like that, especially to the public. Why would we want to people to be called "sluts", so the guys, and even some faculty, can think even less of us as a female student body? This is also something that may stay with these people forever, for the Internet can be very unforgiving. I understand it is our right as Americans to speak our minds, but when you go to a small college, where everyone knows one another personally, these comments are unnecessary, and hurtful to many people. I guess there is not a whole lot that anyone can do about it, I just don't know how many more Kaus stories I can take. People just need to realize that our lives here at FSC are not that interesting, so get over it, and "keep the drama fo yo mamma"!
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Krista, nice work with this post sister. I wrote an article for The Southern on the exact same thing. The paper came out today actually. Check it out.
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