The tale of the newly severed ties between Yeshiva University and the YU Beacon, the most controversial of YU’s several student newspapers, is over. But the telling of the tale continues:
The New York Times arrived a little late to the party, but God forbid they should ever miss out on a quirky Jew-y New York story. Given the quality of their article, I have this feeling that they saw The Wall Street Journal‘s piece on Friday, freaked out about the Journal beating them to a quirky Jew-y New York story and had a story slapped together to rectify the situation.
Jewlicious gave us credit for breaking the story (thanks, y’all!), but doubted whether the author of the original was really a woman:
Ultimately, this simply doesn’t pass the smell test. I don’t even believe this was written by a woman. It reads like the work of a hormonally hopped up freshman from Flatbush engaged in wishful thinking and dreaming of being the next Bret Easton Ellis or Jay McInerney. For this the Beacon Editors caused such a hullabaloo? I think they made the intern at New Voices cry…. New Voices of course, broke the story.
Er, for the record, we don’t have an intern.
Gawker, unable to resist any news item that involves the mention of sex, got in on the action with all the usual snark:
Unmarried college girl drinks two beers, has consensual sexual encounter! The Whore of Babylon has returned! Of course, this is an orthodox Jewish university and therefore there are important religious considerations here, blah blah faux-respectful boilerplate, etc. […]
I guess what this all means is… Cute College Journalist Seeks Generous Benefactor for ‘Assistance’ With Expenses. Discretion a must! Vagina vagina vagina religion penis.
As soon as our first post about the whole thing was up, I emailed Dan Reimold, a journalism professor, author of the book “Sex and the University” and proprietor of the excellent College Media Matters blog. (CMM is a must-read for any college journalist.) He got a post up about it on Saturday.
And then someone made a music video. Goodness gracious.
