We also wanted to thank everyone for the large number of blog submissions we’ve been receiving!  Keep them coming!

Good luck with Midterms. To better ensure you aren’t studying for them, here is our favorite time waster, BOOM SHINE.  (Play with sound for best effect).

At about 1:35 p.m., a black male, described by witnesses as in his thirties, attached a note to the door reading “Be Back in 10 Minutes” before placing a handgun on the counter and demanding money, said Metropolitan Police Department Sergeant John Mitchell.

…

Jaime Molinelli, a veterinarian who lives in Baltimore, Md., said she heard the Foggy Bottom Grocery owner Meseret Bekel shouting from her shop’s door.

“I heard her screaming and I looked at him and said, ‘Hey, you!’ and he started running,” Molinelli said. “So I chased after him.”

This is crazy.  I live a half-block from Foggy Bottom Grocery and it just serves as a reminder that we live in a dangerous, dangerous city.  If you ever see a sign “Be Back in Ten Minutes” on my town house, come save me!

We will also eventually be choosing the best and most dedicated sub-bloggers to begin writing for the main site, hoping they can take over for us when we leave in May.

If you are interested, fill out the application below and email it to us at TheColonialist@Gmail.com.

Your Name:

Year:

Activities/Groups/Clubs:

Relevant Experience (None is Required):

Phone Number:

Pitch Your Idea (One paragraph explaining what your blog would be about, eg. A blog to keep GW students up to date on all the bee-keeping news in the world.):

Short Post Example (Paragraph-long post example):

Long(er) Post Example (A post example of indetermined length):

We look forward to reading your applications!  If you’ve got a friend that you think would be a good blogger for the site, make sure they know they can apply.  It’s hard to get a strong readership for your site, even if you have great content.  We want to help.

DON’T FUCK UP!

We applaud the student life blogs the GW Patriot and the Colonialist for their campaign to undermine Juicy Campus. Their creative, funny initiative to spam the site by posting random, banal information in place of gossip is inspired and shows ingenuity.

General student reaction has been encouraging, as most students agree that the site needs to be rendered useless. Juicy Campus is alive and well on other university campuses, and we are genuinely pleased that GW students are showing strong character by calling for everyone to spam the site into impotence.

We are firmly against censorship - what sort of newspaper would we be if we were not against it? - but we stand with the efforts against the site.

Juicy Campus deserves to go under.

I continue to be surprised by how many people are helping us with this.  I’ve maybe spent about fifteen of my own minutes working on this, but the site continues to be filled with our posts.  We know that you’ve been slacking in the effort because of midterms, but thank the Hatchet by posting a few more pieces of poetry or Wikipedia articles right now.  That includes you, Hatchet writers.

It only works if we keep it up.

[TRAVIS EDIT: I've been hearing from multiple sources that the SA is considering banning the website.  This is absurd.  No website should EVER be banned on our network.  It is up to the student body whether or not they want to stop Juicy Campus, certainly not the Student Government.]

Now, I refuse to waste any more time talking about that shit-show of a website.  Here is something way more important:

Travis and I just engaged in a three minute interview with The Hat Shed regarding our Juicy Campus dadafunfest.

We didn’t really say much of anything because we were only asked two questions, so expect a quote along the lines of:

Campus blogs have issued a call to clutter the site by posting everything from Wikipedia articles to poems by TS Eliot to fight the gossip.  This reporter spoke to two of the four Colonialist (a student blog) writers, who said, “we decided to post information that were more interesting and had the same or more informational value as the unverifiable gossip already there.” When asked why they chose to spam Juicy, they said, “People are profiting from this communal negativity and we don’t think that’s right, so we’re reacting to it.”  The writers also expressed concerns about the claim that posts are made anonymously, citing two students at other universities who had been arrested for posts made on the site.

How’s my journalism impression?
We’re spamming the site is because the site is spamming our lives.

It's tough on the outside.

Hey guys,

This Saturday, at 10:30pm in the Marvin Center Ampitheater, we will have our very first screening of the final cut of Charlie On Parole.  Tickets will be $5 at the door.  Check out the Facebook Event!

Paul Briganti (the non-GW branch of beast.Films as well as the co-director), Kevin, and I will be there to show the (Short, 25 minute) film, as well as other videos, outtakes, deleted scenes and extra footage.  It will be a lot of fun.

The short film stars GW alum, TJ Miller, and features GW Alum Emily Axford (Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, Colbert Report), Joe Wengert (Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater), and Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live).

Some of you may have seen our rough cut screening last spring.  Since then, the film has grown exponentially, and we have been able to use the experience and feedback from that screening to create a final product we are very proud of.  We have spent the last year working extremely hard on this project and putting everything we have into it.  We want nothing more than for as many people as possible to see it, and hopefully, to enjoy it.

You can check out the facebook event, film website, or beast.Films website for more info.

Here is the trailer!

Click here to view the embedded video.
(if the HD version is giving you trouble, try watching the non-HD version)

Juicy Campus is fun because it targets our most human pleasures.  We want to know gossip.  We want to know smears.  We like rumors.  It is hard to admit, but it’s true.  I spent the weekend surfing the site a lot, putting up things about myself and my roommates.  I’d like to openly admit to writing all 10 of the comments calling The GW Patriot racist.  I’d be willing to bet that 80% of the posts on the site are done with the same innocent prank attitude.  It’s a playground.

That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.

Juicy Campus is the reality TV of websites.  It’s mindless and wretched but for some reason it is desirable.  While it’s fun, most people agree that we would be better off with out the website.  Give it enough time, and every single one of us will have our feelings hurt by an anonymous posting on the internet.  Only the most trivial of human beings wish this on someone else.  We don’t want this. We don’t want Juicy Campus.

What do we do now that it is here?

Do we ban it? Pepperdine University and Georgetown University both tried to ban the website from school networks.  This is dumb.  Censoring the internet sets a precedent that we don’t want in academia.  If we ban Juicy Campus, The Colonialist is next.

Do we ignore it? We can’t ignore it.  The site exists and there is no way we can stop people from actively participating in the gossip-mongering.  Even if you choose to not visit the site, others will.  Remember, the site is something we all secretly enjoy.

The only solution: Use Juicy Campus’ free and open forum as a weapon against itself.  This isn’t spam, it’s a response.  I’m willing to bet the amount of people who wish to demolish Juicy Campus far exceeds those who want it around.  We can stop the site by using the site.  All three major GW blogs agree on this.  I’m asking the Hatchet to stand with us on Thursday with some sort of editorial.  GWBlogspot wrote a great piece about JC.  The GWPatriot has figured out how to destroy it.  Here are the instructions:

1) Launch JuicyCampus.

2) Post something utterly ridiculous and benign. A few ideas: free-verse poetry, absurdist short prose, wikipedia articles, long explications of your various political philosophies, silly attacks on yourself, transcripts of conversations you’ve had or plan to have with other people (or yourself), the titles of the last ten books you read, your homework. [Colonialist Edit: DO IT OFTEN!]

3) Reply to a similar post by someone else. These forums thrive on interaction, and it’s not hard to play off someone else’s absurdity.

4) Vow to do this daily, and never to succumb to the temptation to use JuicyCampus the way it’s “supposed” to be used.

The front page of the site has already been flooded with poetry.  Many are hidden under fake titles like “Pita Pit is CLOSING.”  We are the reason Juicy Campus works and we can also be the reason that it doesn’t work.

If we can keep this up for long enough, people will find the site unreliable and unusable.  The hidden ugly content will be flooded with poetic responses and wikipedia entries.  No one will need to use the site anymore.  No one will develop the habit of reading it every day.  Juicy Campus will cease to be relevant.

Once more: We are the reason Juicy Campus works and we can also be the reason that it doesn’t work. It is up to you.

Send this to your friends.  Get posting.

[KIRK EDIT: It's important that the posts that fall under the categories "Most Discussed" and "Most Viewed" are receiving juicy poem bombs.  These are the real lifeblood of the site.

Punch in the throat with the magic of absurdity!  A resurging dada!  Zoom! Zoom! Zimbo! Columns in the corner, handles in the deskchair.]

[TRAVIS EDIT: It's worth noting that this is absolutely working on the front page.  JC moderators deleted a bunch of posts saying that the site sucked now because of our posts.  They are NOT deleting posts with subject titles that appear to fall in line with the site.  They also do not delete individual posts with in topics.  Keep it up!  It's WORKING.  But as Kirk said, we also have to do this on the Most Discussed and Most Viewed pages.]