ext_376750 ([identity profile] penguineggs.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] major_clanger 2012-02-12 04:14 pm (UTC)

I've read the article in full. Obviously.

"A satirical look at dating practices" implies, to me, that the dating practices exist and the approach taken to them in the article is one of satire. I don't suppose that the problem of drug-assisted date rape is any worse at Imperial than it is at other UK educational establishments of similar size, but it's not encouraging that the approach the student newspaper chooses to take to a (known) problem is to find it funny.

I don't see why it seems to be so difficult for people to accept that in an era when employers are having to make heart-breaking decisions on the narrowest of margins when ten or twenty or forty or a hundred highly qualified applicants are showing up for each vacancy that 5 column inches written by one idiot in one output of the student media are likely to have an inordinate effect on the employability of Imperial College students and actively work against the positive things the institution is doing. There are four top-rated universities in the Stonewall gay guide to universities - and in relation the the other three there isn't the "date rapist apologist" downside.


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