You wouldn?t be taking a huge risk to say most of the 300 to 400 people at Goucher College?s Kraushaar Auditorium had never read a Miss Manners column before Thursday night.
Some of the Goucher students certainly will now.
“I will have to now, I think,” said Brittany Vetter, a Goucher senior from the Midwest. “She almost plays the part of being a mother, ?You have to think about what you?re doing.? The administration doesn?t always want to say that.”
Miss Manners ? aka Judith Martin ? surprised Vetter and many of her friends with her direct, practical answers to questions about civility and free speech, part of the college?s speaker series.
Questions ranged from rapper Kanye West?s claim that president “Bush doesn?t care about Black people,” to laws banning Nazi emblems and writings in Germany to the online free social noteworthy sites MySpace or Facebook.
“Why today?s generation ? who is so savvy about the Internet ? hasn?t gotten the fact that it?s out there and people can see it, I don?t understand. It?s there and it?s there forever,” she said about blogging.
Martin applauded some schools? efforts to monitor student?s pages.
