Anti-Gossip Princetonians Charmingly Naive
At press time, 949 Princetonians had renounced "anonymous character assassination, a culture of gossip," and all things generally :-( and on the internet by joining "Own What You Think," an petition/movement/club that thinks "anonymity=cowardice." Led by class of 2010 class president Connor Diemand-Yauman, the group sponsored a glowing "Love Wall" outside the Frist Campus Center last Saturday. The Prince explains that the Love Wall's purpose was to hand out warm-fuzzies all the night long:
Students on their way to the Street stopped to marvel at this and many other messages on the "Love Wall," which displayed positive affirmations written by students about themselves and others.
And by "marvel," she means "paused long enough to trick the optimistic newspaper reporter watching them into walking away, then resumed talking smack about everyone they knew." The group's adorably optimistic poster campaign announces "You Can't Take Me Down," a sentiment many a student has attempted to disprove by ripping the posters apart and scattering their shredded remnants like ticker tape all over campus.
Please proceed to the anonymous comment board below for cowardly discussion of the movement.
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April 16th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
sounds like a sexual innuendo to me.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
morons.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
This campaign is retarded. People need to get over themselves.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
This campaign is retarded. People need to get over themselves.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
This campaign is retarded. People need to get over themselves.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Princeton ‘11 is retarded. One button push is enough.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
This campaign is retarded. People need to get over themselves.
n00bz
April 16th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
April 17th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I was at Princeton last weekend and saw that by Frist. Retarded. Blaming anonymity for gossip is like blaming the internet for porn.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:08 am
lena chen is #954 of the petition signatories… oh woops… i guess that’s gossip…
April 17th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
wow this is pathetic…and dare i say the dorkiest thing i’ve read in ages! these kids should be ridiculed by EVERYONE!
April 17th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
It was really annoying to have to sit in class next to a bunch of people wearing “Anonymity = Cowardice” shirts. Hmm, let’s go lynch whoever wrote the Federalist papers now.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Kids at Princeton would pull this kind of feel-good bullshit. They really should worry less about gossip and worry more about unpopping their (pink) collars and burning those goddamn plaid shorts.
April 19th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
as an organization founded on anonymity and gossip, we must officially oppose such a ridiculous, unfounded petition. We are kind of sad Lena has engaged in this herself, since she has in the past shown support for what we do. Also, projecting a bunch of positive gossip anonymously onto a street is still projecting gossip anonymously, hypocrites.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:11 am
the love wall actually wasn’t anonymous–that was the point