IvyGate Stands by Tasteless Post

And So it Goes in Shreveport ^ | 09/15/2009 | Pat Austin

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Yesterday, IvyGate updated their tasteless post on the death of Warren Schor; I posted their explanation on my original post, but here it is again...It seems the post was only updated because of the outrage that followed rather that because of an acknowledgment of poor taste.

At the very least it's rank hypocrisy from a publication that once lashed out at the Dartmouth Review for an offensive Native American picture on their cover. When Dartmouth issued an apology, IvyGate was unimpressed. In fact, in response to the Dartmouth apology, IvyGate's Chris Beam wrote: "There's many a broken soul on the shoulder of the student publication highway -- people who think irony is a defense for the patently offensive. But these guys seem to have emerged relatively unscathed. They stand by their content. They still work for the paper."

It doesn't look like IvyGate learned any lessons about being "patently offensive" after all. They have also emerged "relatively unscathed" and "stand by their content."

Hypocrits.