You know the difference in pay between a prof who schedules 15 minute meetings with each student and one who just clicks 'submit' on Turnitin?
Zilch.
Actually, maybe less than zilch. The prof who's reviewing drafts of student work and meeting one-on-one with students for 15-20 hours a week is spending 15-20 hours fewer a week on professional publications, which are what actually get you tenure and pay raises.
You simply do not pay enough tuition to make it worth the prof's time. Or, perhaps, the administration simply wastes too much of your tuition on non-professorial costs.
Why does everyone assume that it's going to be Microsoft and Coke advertising in City of Stuff?
It's going to be the same people who buy up low rent ads on satellite radio.
So, I hope everyone (optionally) enjoys City of Penis Enlargement, City of Buy Gold Now, City of Make Free Money on the Internet With Our Free CD, etc...
If you're a law firm, like almost every other corporate business, you take the path of least resistance. The human resources people Googled, noted the possible controversy, and decided to pass. They probably didn't delve very deeply into the forums, because why would they want to? That stuff is, as you said, [... bad shit...]. Why read about it and try to determine what's exactly going on when you have a much more innocuous and equally qualified candidate's application in front of you?
>Can you hear it?: "Oh she's top of her class at UPenn, just *blew* the doors off the interview,
>goddamn articulate, but I heart an anonymous rumour she cheated on her LSAT"
What if the scenario instead was, "Oh, she's an excellent student at Yale, she interviewed well, she's fairly articulate, but when I type her name into Google, the first four hits are:
1) AutoAdmit.com - Student XXXXXX of YLS has huge fake titties
2) AutoAdmit.com - YLS 1L STUDENT XXXXXX HAS HUGE FAKE TITS AND IS...
3) The XoXo Reader...Way to fuck up big-titted YLS Student XXXXXXX's reputation
4) The XoXo Reader: I don't know why these girls are complaining... ITT we speculate about big-titted Student XXXXXX
Maybe we should go with the other excellent student from Yale (or some other top 5 law school) who applied for the same job and who interviewed well and who doesn't have this kind of baggage?"
The Washington Post article does a horrible job of explaining just what happened. This girl didn't just have rumors spread about her. Someone on a locker room-esque web forum found some absolutely normal pictures of a newly admitted student Yale Law student in which her clothed, though noticeably large, breasts were visible, and then people got into a contest of 'let's see who can say the most disgusting things about Student XXXXXX' and voila, localized meme. On these forums, 'big-titted Student XXXXX' became the equivalent of 'vagina full of centipedes' or 'i am in ur XXXXX killin ur YYYYY'.
Clearly, libel and slander laws in the US weren't written with Google in mind. If I go into a locker room and talk about some girl's big fake tits for hours on end, the odds of it affecting her professional life are slim. I could even send letters to everyone I know with pictures of the girl labeled 'hey, look at these big fake titties' and not hurt her very much. Odds are, the guy who talks about nothing but big fake tits all day is going to be the one who loses the job, not his unfortunate target. But because of how Google indexes, some asinine anonymous conversation on some backwater forum can be launched ahead of every other detail about a person, if they are unfortunate enough to have a distinctive name.
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And his feet were the size of halibut. Or so the guy at Got Medieval says.
You know the difference in pay between a prof who schedules 15 minute meetings with each student and one who just clicks 'submit' on Turnitin? Zilch. Actually, maybe less than zilch. The prof who's reviewing drafts of student work and meeting one-on-one with students for 15-20 hours a week is spending 15-20 hours fewer a week on professional publications, which are what actually get you tenure and pay raises. You simply do not pay enough tuition to make it worth the prof's time. Or, perhaps, the administration simply wastes too much of your tuition on non-professorial costs.
Why does everyone assume that it's going to be Microsoft and Coke advertising in City of Stuff? It's going to be the same people who buy up low rent ads on satellite radio. So, I hope everyone (optionally) enjoys City of Penis Enlargement, City of Buy Gold Now, City of Make Free Money on the Internet With Our Free CD, etc...
If you're a law firm, like almost every other corporate business, you take the path of least resistance. The human resources people Googled, noted the possible controversy, and decided to pass. They probably didn't delve very deeply into the forums, because why would they want to? That stuff is, as you said, [... bad shit ...]. Why read about it and try to determine what's exactly going on when you have a much more innocuous and equally qualified candidate's application in front of you?
>Can you hear it?: "Oh she's top of her class at UPenn, just *blew* the doors off the interview,
... ...Way to fuck up big-titted YLS Student XXXXXXX's reputation ... ITT we speculate about big-titted Student XXXXXX
>goddamn articulate, but I heart an anonymous rumour she cheated on her LSAT"
What if the scenario instead was, "Oh, she's an excellent student at Yale, she interviewed well, she's fairly articulate, but when I type her name into Google, the first four hits are:
1) AutoAdmit.com - Student XXXXXX of YLS has huge fake titties
2) AutoAdmit.com - YLS 1L STUDENT XXXXXX HAS HUGE FAKE TITS AND IS
3) The XoXo Reader
4) The XoXo Reader: I don't know why these girls are complaining
Maybe we should go with the other excellent student from Yale (or some other top 5 law school) who applied for the same job and who interviewed well and who doesn't have this kind of baggage?"
The Washington Post article does a horrible job of explaining just what happened. This girl didn't just have rumors spread about her. Someone on a locker room-esque web forum found some absolutely normal pictures of a newly admitted student Yale Law student in which her clothed, though noticeably large, breasts were visible, and then people got into a contest of 'let's see who can say the most disgusting things about Student XXXXXX' and voila, localized meme. On these forums, 'big-titted Student XXXXX' became the equivalent of 'vagina full of centipedes' or 'i am in ur XXXXX killin ur YYYYY'.
Clearly, libel and slander laws in the US weren't written with Google in mind. If I go into a locker room and talk about some girl's big fake tits for hours on end, the odds of it affecting her professional life are slim. I could even send letters to everyone I know with pictures of the girl labeled 'hey, look at these big fake titties' and not hurt her very much. Odds are, the guy who talks about nothing but big fake tits all day is going to be the one who loses the job, not his unfortunate target. But because of how Google indexes, some asinine anonymous conversation on some backwater forum can be launched ahead of every other detail about a person, if they are unfortunate enough to have a distinctive name.