The Hazards Of Duke

The Atlantic:

No matter what your opinion of the now notorious online "thesis" of the recent Duke graduate Karen Owen--a comprehensive and often pornographic report on her sexual encounters with 13 athletes, most of them lacrosse players--you have to admit that it was a terrible PowerPoint. That program is intended for creating a visual accompaniment to a lecture, keeping audience and speaker on track by reducing the essential ideas of a complex presentation to a series of bullet-pointed phrases and concepts, the irreducible takeaway.

Read the whole story: The Atlantic

Comments

[DukeBBALL1]

11:58 PM on 01/26/2011

It is astonishing to me that The Atlantic could actually publish an article like this. This woman clearly has a personal vendetta against Duke. How Flanagan can classify a faculty that has had 13 Nobel Prize winners at one point or another as "longer on star power than on intellectual substance" is just mind-boggling. Also, one needs to spend about five minutes on the Duke campus to realize that her claims about a lack of an intellectual atmosphere are at best misguided and more likely part of a personal vendetta. Duke University students have been outraged by this article...and rightly so. It is clearly evident that Flanagan is basing her opinions upon the three largest scandals the University has had in recent memory. This editorial was more worthy of the National Enquirer than The Atlantic.

[PoliticalMMA]

10:13 PM on 01/11/2011

that was a very good article. Big ups to The Atlantic