Saturday, October 16, 2010

Owen PowerPoint raises serious questions at Duke

While preparing to graduate from Duke, alumna Karen Owen created a Powerpoint presentation that has created a firestorm. This “joke” thesis by Karen Owen detailed the ability and even size of every person she had slept with while at Duke. There has been really heavy damage from the Powerpoint’s reveal. Karen Owen never intended this to be a viral hit, she just shared it with friends.

The PowerPoint Karen Owen made

The title of the project Karen Owen did was “Just for fun.” It had sexual conquests on a Powerpoint. Every pairing encounter the Duke student had been in was outlined in the PowerPoint. First, Karen Owen shared the Powerpoint with just her friends. The PowerPoint spread around the world after it spread through all of Duke. The PowerPoint made its way via the internet very quickly. It was really popular as people knew it was about a college student. Not even no no fax loans stores can match the growth rate of the Powerpoint presentation that was not ever supposed to reach a large audience but has been downloaded more than 2 million times.

PowerPoint made by Duke student reopens wounds

It had been just a few short years ago the private life of Duke became international news. The lacrosse team had been charged with sex crimes which was cleared later on. This was when the college’s private life became news to everyone. The Karen Owen PowerPoint has made some reconsider Duke. The college students seem to promiscuous. Some say Duke students get way too much attention. Some say it isn’t really just the students, and that it is the college culture.

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. Many students think this move was not a really good one, including Karen Owen. After direct requests, numerous, though not all news outlets have redacted the names of the people involved. What’s your reaction?

Citations

Duke Chronicle

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

Jezebel

jezebel.com



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