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That, media watchdogs warn, is a troubling sign that newspapers are using voyeurism to survive. "It feeds societal prurience with no journalistic value," says Robert Steele, a journalism professor at DePauw University and an ethics specialist for the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which owns the St. Petersburg Times. And while most mug-shot galleries advise viewers that the defendants are innocent until proved guilty, Steele says there's a "stench of unfairness to this kind of cyber-billboard." Robert Wesley, the chief public defender in Orlando, calls the mug-shot features "online Salem pillories...
Harvard administrator Brian W. Casey will be the next president of DePauw University the institution announced yesterday. Casey, who is currently Harvard’s associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will take the reins of the Greencastle, Ind. institution on July 1. “He was, far and above, the best candidate,” said Sarah R. Wallace, chairwoman of the DePauw presidential search committee. “The selection committee voted unanimously to endorse him in one vote. He had many attributes that we were looking for in terms...
...could have been a plot from Revenge of the Nerds. In December the Delta Zeta sorority, struggling to combat its bookish reputation, booted 23 students from its DePauw University chapter, saying the sisters were neglecting their recruiting duties. The 23 young women, who insisted that they were shown the door because they were not pretty enough, scored a plus-size payback when DePauw President Robert Bottoms decided that, come September, it would be the Delta Zetas who would no longer be welcome on campus. Of the expulsion, Bottoms said, "We believe the values of our university and those of Delta...
What apparently went on at DePauw University late last year was a scene straight out of the history books: unabashed, ugly discrimination. In a scene that belied fifty years of progress on American college campuses, 23 of the 35 women of the DePauw chapter of the Delta Zeta (DZ) sorority, including every overweight member, and the only black, Vietnamese, and Korean members, were summarily uprooted from their house and effectively evicted from their chapter, by many accounts part of an image makeover mandated by adult officers of DZ’s national organization. We use the term...
...searched for Lawrence Summers on Facebook.com, but the only profile I found was of a junior at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Dean Gross is on Facebook. Have you considered creating a profile? LHS: Briefly. But not ultimately affirmatively. I think I’ll leave the Facebook to my children and to your generation. I’m not hard for my friends to find...