Greek leaders resolve to stop gossip website
Members of the Interfraternity Council met last week to discuss the repercussions brought about by the gossip website CollegeACB.com.
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Members of the Interfraternity Council met last week to discuss the repercussions brought about by the gossip website CollegeACB.com.
After Juicy Campus shut down on Feb. 5, 2009, the Anonymous Confession Board created a Web site, CollegeACB.com, which gave college students throughout the country the freedom to post about any facet of college life.
The recent demise of JuicyCampus.com has brought increased attention to other community-driven Web sites - such as FMyLife.com and KissAndDish.com - where people can anonymously post about hookups, embarrassing incidents, relational mishaps and more.
Founder and CEO of JuicyCampus.com, Matt Ivester, announced that the Web site would be shut down as of today after a loss in revenue because of the bad economy, according to a press release from Ivester that was also posted on the site's blog.
The student government association and administrators at Tennessee State University in Nashville banned JuicyCampus.com from being accessed on university networks and servers on Nov. 12, according to articles from the student newspaper, making TSU the first public university to ban the Web site.
By Generra Peck, Matt Whittaker, Elizabeth Barry, David McCormick, Lisa Sinkovitz and Connor Close
Is the Juice worth the squeeze?
We are writing to address JuicyCampus.com and its consequence to our campus community. First, we wish to express our collective disapproval and disappointment with Juicy Campus. As leaders of student government and the Greek community, we want to encourage the UR student body to act with respect for others. The University of Richmond student is held to a high standard of integrity and trust, and because of this standard we each must act in ways that respect our neighbors, our classmates, our professors and ourselves. We have an opportunity to reject the negativity this site has put on our campus community and move forward.
By Jimmy Young
A few days ago I discovered a juicy new addition to this campus, and judging by the most popular searches this week (Richmond currently holds the top two spots), it seems that a sizable chunk of the rest of our campus knows exactly what I'm talking about.
"Always anonymous. Always juicy," is the self-proclaimed description of the Web site JuicyCampus.com, which allows students at 50 colleges and universities to post anonymous comments about other students and organizations at their schools.