Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Owen PowerPoint raises significant questions at Duke

By creating a fake “thesis,” Karen Owen has created a huge public relations nightmare for Duke University. The Duke student PowerPoint detailed sexual conquests. Intended just for friends, Karen Owen’s Powerpoint went viral — with heavy collateral damage.

The PowerPoint created by Karen Owen

As a project “just for fun,” Karen Owen created a PowerPoint of sexual conquests. The PowerPoint showed each pairing she had been in. This is what the Duke student did. First, Karen Owen shared the Powerpoint with just her friends. Everyone at Duke knew about the Powerpoint fairly easily. Next it went all around the world to numerous people. The PowerPoint became extremely popular because it was from a college student and traveled very fast. More than two million downloads of the Powerpoint have happened so far. That’s a growth rate that can’t even be reached by no fax payday loans no credit check stores.

Wounds widened with PowerPoint by Duke student

It had been just a couple of short years ago the private life of Duke became international news. The college’s private life when around the world after the lacrosse team had been charged, but cleared later, of sex crimes. The new PowerPoint by Karen Owen has reignited a discussion of the promiscuity of college students at Duke. Some say that Duke is unusual only in how much attention the students get. Some say it is not just the students, and that it is the college culture.

Lack of redaction on the Karen Owen PowerPoint

There are many other concerns to deal with instead of just the unintelligent Karen Owen who made this ridiculous PowerPoint. Jezebel, which first posted the Duke student Powerpoint, did not redact any names. Numerous students think this move wasn’t a very good one, including Karen Owen. News outlets have responded to this. The names were redacted by practically all of the outlets. What do you think?

Info from

Duke Chronicle

dukechronicle.com/article/sex-list-draws-media-duke

Jezebel

jezebel.com



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