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Dear anonymous commenters: Our authors put their names behind their opinions and it’d be nice if you do the same – or at the bare minimum use a pseudonym. We’re all in favor of allowing anonymous comments. The last thing we want to do is become the draconian ‘editors’ at the Hatchet who ‘moderate’...
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Anonymous
New Policy on Comments
If it’s a ridiculous comment, it gets deleted, whether or not it’s anonymous. (Anonymity, after all, is the great bugaboo of the Blogger system: it’s very easy to fake non-anonymity by using someone else’s name, so you are entitled to no great respect for not being an anonymous commenter.) This blog is our mental...
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Enough is Enough
I have removed the ridiculous George Brunner vs. Jason Lifton blog post. The post itself was not, in my estimation, a problem. We had hoped simply to bring attention to a scuffle between two candidates for SA office. Like many of our posts, it was not meant to stir up intense debate but simply...
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When JuicyCampus Attacks: Matt Ivester on Internet Gossip and the American College
An excerpt from a discussion with Matt Ivester, the founder of JuicyCampus. The full transcript of our interview will be included in our forthcoming print edition. GW Patriot: What would you say to the people who have been the subjects of malicious gossip on your site? Matt Ivester: We get e-mails all the time...
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College isn’t for everyone.
An anonymous adjunct professor of English explains why society is demanding that too many people attend too much college, when they just aren’t prepared for it: No one is thinking about the larger implications, let alone the morality, of admitting so many students to classes they cannot possibly pass. The colleges and the students...
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Packing Heat in the Classroom
A semi-anonymous student (with a “concealed carry” permit) at the University of Utah is carrying a gun into classes. I’ll let you judge for yourselves.
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Putting the SA Fiasco to Rest (for good)
Anyone who has been reading the blog over the past few days has had a hard time missing the ridiculous conversation going on between one of our more tactful posters (Bill) and an anonymous heckler with supposed SA connections. While discussing Bill’s great post on the student tax increase it is my belief that,...
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Once More Into the Breach
An anonymous commenter on my recent post concerning the student fee increase: Isn’t a little hypocritical to call for student orgs to fund themselves when the Patriot receives funding from a conservative group? Not every group has the benefit of being subsidized. Let’s break this down: it is hypocritical of me, due to my...
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