Thursday, October 7, 2010

Karen Owen's PowerPoint List Rocks Duke Campus, Goes Viral

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Karen Owen's PowerPoint list is more famous now than she ever could have imagined. Owen, a Duke graduate of 2010, has become an internet sensation after a mock-thesis titled, "An education beyond the classroom: excelling in the realm of horizontal academics," went viral around the internet and propelled her into the mainstream media spotlight.

Since creating the now widely-seen list -- a project rating her sexual conquests during her time at Duke -- Owen has been thrust to the forefront of discussions about sex on college campuses and amongst American youth, including stories on prominent outlets such as CBSNews.com and on NBC's The Today Show, as well as garnering huge attention in the blogosphere.

Most notably, Deadspin featured the full, unedited PowerPoint presentation, but quickly received a bombardment of angry emails and phone calls from the players, parents, and even the author herself demanding, at the very least, that the real names be immediately removed. Deadspin printed a transcript of her email, saying:

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