Thursday, October 14, 2010

PowerPoint presentation about sexuality leaves Duke cold

Karen Owen, Duke alumna, has created a huge PR problem for the school. How? A Powerpoint “thesis” intended just for friends. Karen Owen’s thesis (the fake one, anyway) laid out, in detail, her sexual conquests. Had been Karen Owen’s PowerPoint a joke for friends that just got out of hand? Some think she knew what she had been doing when it got shared.

Karen Owen’s PowerPoint

The title of the project Karen Owen did had been “Just for fun.” It had sexual conquests on a Powerpoint. 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. Every person at Duke knew about the Powerpoint quite quickly. Next it went all around the world to many people. The PowerPoint made its way through the web really easily. It was really popular as people knew it had been about a college student. Though it was never intended for a wider audience, the Powerpoint presentation has been downloaded more than 2 million times – a growth rate not even no no fax payday loans stores can match.

Wounds widened with PowerPoint by Duke student

It wasn’t too long ago the Duke life was shown to the world. That had been when it became international. After the lacrosse team had been charged with (and later cleared of) sex crimes, the private life of the college was spread across the world. College students at Duke are being considered more promiscuous now the new PowerPoint by Karen Owen has come out. Some say Duke students get way too much attention. Numerous others say the college culture is to blame. It is not just the students.

Too little of a redaction to Karen Owen’s Powerpoint

Everybody thinks it had been a bad decision for Karen Owen to make this Powerpoint. Of course, other things are a bigger concern right now. No names were redacted with the Duke Powerpoint which was first posted by Jezebel. Karen Owen herself questioned this move. It didn’t have much journalistic responsibility. Names of those involved were redacted by numerous of the news outlets. What do you think about this?

Articles cited

Duke Chronicle

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

Jezebel

jezebel.com



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