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Juicy Campus out of business
Submitted by eferreri on 02/05/2009 - 11:16
Juicy Campus, a website that fostered vulgar, crass, anonymous gossip among college students, has fallen victim to the recession.
The online board, the brainchild of Duke University graduate Matt Ivester, was a popular place for college students to make crude comments about others. Cloaked, naturally, in anonymity.
The website vexed university administrators, many of whom are surely reveling in its demise. It certainly didn't raise the level of campus discourse, what with topics like "Biggest slut on campus" and the like.
Ivester created the website while at Duke. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, one Duke administrator tried, unsuccessfully, to convince Ivester to tone it down.
So the administrator, Larry Moneta, Duke's vice president for student affairs, advised colleagues to just let the website play itself out, according to the Chronicle article.
"This is one of the rare occasions in which I got it right," Moneta told that publication. "It ran its course, in some respects longer than I expected. Rest in peace."
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Mon, 09/07/2009 - 14:52 — TakaI used to like the stories on Juicy Campus, unfortunately even in these historically difficult economic times, even the best run companies and banks can have it's difficulties, not just websites. Well, I wish Matt Ivester good luck on his new ventures. God bless.
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Wed, 07/22/2009 - 05:34 — jason44In its brief life, online college burn book Juicy Campus won notoriety and lawsuits for letting students adult hosting campuses and classmates. Now it's going out of business. With the help of fancy Hollywood flacks!Matt Ivester, the founder of JuicyCampus, put out a press release blaming his site's closure, planned for Thursday, on "historically difficult economic times" which have wiped out advertising budget hosting and venture-capital funding. And yet he found enough money to pay a team Public Relations, a Los Angeles PR firm known mostly for representing celebrities, to announce Juicy Campus's economic straits. We smell some kind of desperate publicity stunt to draw out white-knight investors — but what kind of fool would put money into a website templates which is burning cash so obviously, right up to the end.