This very well may be the highlight of my career thus far! I wrote the cover story for the Times Union’s perspective section today about JuicyCampus.com, a pernicious new gossip web-site for college students. Check it out! I’ve been reading the Times Union daily for years–it’s the newspaper that serves the area where I grew up, Albany, NY. So needless to say, I’m totally pumped to finally be published in their print edition! (I had written a blog for their web-site for years prior).

In terms of my op-ed, JuicyCampus.com really makes my blood boil. I’m relieved to say that the site hasn’t caught on at my college the way it has at the University of Albany or the University of Delaware (another school where JuicyCampus.com has really taken off), but I think it’s really horrible that a corporation is profiting off of college peers being cruel to one another. While censorship isn’t necessarily the key (although I do think many of the posts on JuicyCampus should be removed), I think the most important step to take is for college students to stop reading the site! If no one reads JuicyCampus.com, there would be no point posting to it! So there.