Penn Blogger Tries to be Humorous; Fails Miserably

by James Yu | September 24, 2008 at 1:16 pm

It must be a slow week at Not Penn State because an opinion blogger for The Daily Pennsylvanian decided to devote an entire post on the "Best places to kill yourself on campus". To his credit, the writer provides a hyperlinked disclaimer in the second paragraph:

...stop reading somewhere around HERE if you get all uppity with sensitive things. My editor would like me to link to ponies and rainbows at this point in the post.

One link is to Penn's Reach-A-Peer Helpline, and the other is to Ponystars, an online game created for five-year-old girls. We get it: the post is not meant to be serious. But is poking fun at suicidal college students ever acceptable? And where's the editor in all this, the voice of reason that should have shot this down before it saw the light of day? The only conclusion I could draw is that the editor is probably too busy tending to his or her ponies on Ponystar to really care. More quotes from Will Steinberger's not-so-funny post after the jump.

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