"Girls Gone Wild" might not be the most tasteful avenue modern entertainment has seen, but its popularity can't be denied. In fact, Ball State University has recently had a taste of the pornographic phenomenon.
A Web site, partybsu.com, briefly posted pictures of topless girls. One of the site's hosts, senior Chris Kelley, removed the pictures after one or two days.
Kelley, who created the site with friends as a resource for Ball State's party-goers, began requesting party pictures and posting them, he said, as long as they're not "too obscene, or if no one has given me permission ... to use them."
Kelley's site is perfectly legitimate; online party advertising is a novelty employed by many college students across the country. But when alcohol, hormones and cameras are involved, negative consequences usually result.
Howie Snider, an instructor of journalism who teaches media law, said Kelley could have invaded the girls' privacy by posting pictures without their consent.
Still, as Snider points out, students have to realize what they're doing. At a party, where judgment has almost always been compromised by alcohol, students can place, and find, themselves in many compromising situations: passed out on the couch, shouting in the yard or nude on the Internet.
Students should have fun, and students should continue submitting their pictures to partybsu.com. But if a camera is present, students should make sure they know the photographer and can trust what he will do with the picture.
If you don't know the photographer, don't take your clothes off. That's the only way you won't have to worry about showing up on a the cover of the next "Girls Gone Wild" video.
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