- A story on WKRC television news.
- Coverage on 700 WLW news.
- A blog operated by CityBeat (on which we posted a SWNIDish comment; N.B. that our comment appears above the name and date stamp: we don't use a euphemism for a vulgarity commonly inserted into the middle of a word for emphasis, even sarcastically--and we don't use the un-emphemized vulgarity either).
- A blog operated by World Magazine, in which commenters have liberally exercised their constitutional right to flame each other.
We offer our sympathy to the clever creators of the video, who now unexpectedly find themselves the objects of controversy. We know the pain of sarcasm misunderstood. Not that it has stopped us.
Update: We pass along the unconfirmed rumor that many seniors at Seton High School are lobbying for "PHG" to be their senior song.
7 comments:
Seems that most of the blushing and outrage was a school performance by a bunch of administrators ("bunch" in no way being inclusive of particular administrators who may or may not be associated with content production from this blog) trying to make it seem as though CCU you wasn't basically a bunch of nerdy middle class white kids in the middle of a working class urban neighborhood and even if it were there would be nothing humorous about that situation.
The bad news is that I do think that this reflects poorly on the school in the end, though not to the fault of any of the students who were merely doing what bible college students always have done which is practice characteristically quirky humor. The PR release is the biggest joke of the whole "story" although I assume that it wasn't intended as satire! What a bunch of bologna (or would it be goetta?).
when i saw the video a good while ago, I didn't think it would generate that much controversy. I'd say its just a couple college students with some time on their hands (probably should have been studying their Greek vocab a little more) and some creative outlet. Hope it doesn't cause too much "damage" to the college or the guys who did it.
"There's no bad publicity, except an obituary"
SWIND referencing NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" on City Beat? Impressive my friend :-)
I think that whoever was offended shouldn't be using the internet in the first place. One of their kids or grandkids probably showed it to them (unless of course it was just some in administration).
Not being anywhere near Price Hill right now, my impression seems to be that the "community" is fine with it. This is probably the best publicity CCU has ever had (free I might add). I heard (and agreed with) more complaints about some of CCU's lame and poorly done Billboard ads (which I assume cost a good deal).
Those students should be proud, although I hate rap, even mock rap, that was probably the best video to ever come out of CCU. If the school were on the ball, they would consider using the talents of those students to promote the school through means that connect with current teenagers.
I thought the video was hilarious. It is good to see SWNID is on top of the hysterical record of PHG. It must be a throwback from his days of exposing the historical record of the New Testament as a professor.
One missing fact, when it was reposted, did Dean Dave Soper repost it or did someone ghost post it using the esteemed Dean's name?
As a big $upporter of CCU I think the admission department needs to post it on their web page.
Anonymous asks: "One missing fact, when it was reposted, did Dean Dave Soper repost it or did someone ghost post it using the esteemed Dean's name?"
SWNID answers: To quote again the immortal New Yorker cartoon, "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog." We know Soper, and we know students. The likelihood of Soper having done it versus a student having committed innocuous identity theft is pretty easy to decide. But in the end, the true identity of the re-poster will probably never be resolved with certainty.
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