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Valentine's Day in The Pit
2/27/2007
OTOH (On the other hand, for you Boomers.), when you think about the behavior of the crowd, you have to be impressed by its ferocity, as well as by how amused it is. As one girl states to a friend, off camera, at the beginning of on of the YouTube clips: "It's not for a show." Then, as Burke starts talking to Moorman, the crowd yells, "Louder, we can't hear you." Working the crowd were a number of groups with stickers and causes, even the singing group made sure that the crowd knew the date of their next engagement.
The event as it happened, if you bother to watch it, just wasn't all that cruel, even if it had been completely authentic. I recommend that you watch the YouTube, enjoy the music, and think about it a bit. If there's one thing you do this week to better understand our students, watch the video and think.
One woman in the audience had brought a present for Moorman. In the end, the entire crowd chants, "Nah, nah, nah, nah, good-bye." Is there anyone there who is not having fun? Even the woman being dumped showed no signs of hurt emotions, instead "getting into it" with zest.
The people who were there all had fun. The people who reported on it all thought it was terrible. With the power of the Internet and YouTube, we can join the nearly 1 million others who have also been there. Without it, if we'd heard of this story at all, we'd only have heard it being painted in the most negative light.
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.
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