The latest online sensation to hit TSU's campus is Juicy Campus. Unlike typical community Web sites, Juicy Campus has garnered negative attention from students as well as university administration.

In response to several complaints and posts published on the site, Juicy Campus is now banned on the university Internet network.

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In the "About us" section of the site, it also reads, "Today it is a forum where college students discuss the topics that interest them the most, and in a manner of speaking deem most appropriate."

Like TSU, some college campuses have deemed the site inappropriate.

During the spring of 2008, a Vanderbilt University student Chelsea Gorman was raped while walking back to campus one night.

Later, viewers of Juicy Campus read a topic titled, "Chelsea Gorman Deserved It". Even after receiving counseling, Gorman still had to face the campus not only reading her rape, but also talking about it.

On TSU's campus link, the topics features subjects such as who is gay on campus, inside information of Pan Hellenic organizations, who has STD's, HIV and AIDS, and even personal student information.

Some people have even gone so far as to post camera phone pictures of a seemingly private Facebook message for the world to see.

Since anything by any anonymous person can be added to the site, readers cannot be sure if the information is true.

"I tried to get to Juicy Campus in the Performing Arts Building," said Starr Jones, a sophomore speech communications and theater major from Cincinnati. "When I logged in it took me right to the TSU site."

JuicyCampus.com was merely a lightly visited Web site on the TSU campus on Monday, having only about two pages worth on context.

By Wednesday there were seven pages and hundreds of responses to the posts. It quickly jumped to 15 by Friday.

The CIT Department managed to block the site from the TSU network, but not the server. Total blocking of the site might be seen as too much restriction.

While Juicy Campus is apparently affecting TSU's campus, it is by no means a new occurrence.

Publications both print and digital that have been on campus include: Bleu Crush, Firestarter, Dreamweaver, and Facebook's own controversial application, the Honesty Box.

"I even went to a bunch of laptops to try it," Jones said.
While the site's function on TSU's campus is seemingly destructive, students are anxiously ready to be past the negativity.

"Remember why you are here," Walker Reese said. "You're here to grow in your personal endeavors. Take the time and energy you put on an individual on your individual growth."

DeShanee Miner writes for The Meter, the Tennessee State University student newspaper, which originally published this article.