Gold.
http://www.wlns.com/story/20626590/michigan-state-university-students-re...
Pretty sure this website sent press releases to all local media with college connections. Local news then becomes unwitting PR mouthpiece of sketchy website.
Missing Ann Arbor
Oh, wait...
http://www.annarbor.com/news/students-from-u-m-emu-sign-up-for-sugar-dad...
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
Grass is Green, cocaine is White. All of these statements are self-evident.
Also, what the hell did that girl think was going to happen in these 'relationships' before she signed up? That they were just going to go to dinner or the movie and hang out?
If you can't get into college,
go to State.
The girl's statement does prove that MSU students are a notch below Michigan's. I can't imagine a Michigan student being dumb enough to think that men on a Sugar Daddy site are going to give her money just for looking cute and hanging out.
She's probably the only girl in EL who wouldn't "put out" for $100.
Leroy Velasquez?
If the haters don't hate you then you're doing something wrong. - David Cone
Well, the thing about local news, you don't have to report on every crazy thing that happens on the Internet. Yes, you could conceivably find a tenuous local connection to just about any type of exploitative, distasteful website, but do we really need to read about MSU being the 16st most represented school on a sugar daddy website?
Missing Ann Arbor
The content supports a T-Shirt that has the same title that used to be sold in the store on this site. That's the only reason I posted this.
The Team, The Team, The Team.
I agree with your premise, whole-heartedly. And this link would appear to be prima facie evidence that, as suspected, hundreds of MSU co-eds may be females of negotiable affecting.
My issue is with the local news providing unwitting plugs for the website in question.
Missing Ann Arbor
I wonder if she kept the $100 gift card.
"He played the trombone. Did you know he played the trombone? That's a tough one to picture." --Kovacs, on Denard "Shoelace" Robinson
These guys are idiots to foresee quality/activity worth $14k or any ridiculous amount. Probably cheaper to mail-order a bride.
Guy 1: Do you think prostitution is crazy?
Guy 2: Yea.
Guy 1: Because of morality or riskiness?
Guy 2: Because its too expensive.
"Everybody wants to be a hero, so to speak. But it takes everybody." - Charles Woodson
Like $100 gift card? What am I supposed to do with this? Totes not enough for me to go out on Thursday night. Unless that gift card is for Rick's and wayyy more, I'm so not even giving a handy
I have a Fandom Endurance III merit badge
And you should feel bad.
Also, let's take a looksee:
2012-13 MSU enrollment estimate: 48,880
Alleged women of negotiable affection: 300
Maths---> 0.615%
"OH BUT WAIT ONLY WIMMENZ CAN BE OF NEGOTIABLE AFFECTIONS!' Wrong, but whatever, assume MSU has a 50:50 ratio.
300/24,440 = 1.230%
YEA THEM SPARTANDAWGS ARE SUCH HOOKERSLOOTS! LET US STROKE OURSELVES TO THE THOUGHTS OF OUR MICHIGAN WOMEN OF HIGHER MORALS.
The world looks better through maize mirror tint.
I sort of agree. It is interesting that you forget that during the 80s,90s, and early oughts that many UofM female students worked in Windsor and other approximate Canadian cities as strippers. It was cash, no taxes and it had amenity. They paid their way through UofM and never looked back. It wasn't just UofM either. Kind of shocked that any one would find these sites or co-eds prostituting men for a buck all that novel. Pretty common in every university's culture.
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
Since I was a fetus in New York in late '89, I never did have much awareness of how Michigan students were earning their spending money at the time, but the more you know! I just graduated in April, and there were always rumors of so-and-so stripping in Ypsi. It's a big enough university so it's not a far stretch to imagine a few hundred students involved with sugar daddies or cougars on the side.
The world looks better through maize mirror tint.
in one of my freshman courses in 2000 that worked the strip club in Ypsi. I found out when I went there with my frat. I didn't recognize her at first because she would always come to class frumpy, but she confirmed to me she had been in my class first semester.
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UM enrollment: 39993
Alleged women of negotiable affection: 177
Maths........0.443
But wait with 50% we are at .883
Both round to 1.
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Everyone else was falling over themselves to reinforce the "Sparty Sluts" meme without caring to realize that MSU's sugar daddy website membership percentage was rather low and similar to UM's.
And I am truly sorry to hear that the operation to restore your sarcasm meter failed.
The world looks better through maize mirror tint.
Serious question. When does gold digging, in which a woman enters a relationship solely to enjoy a man's vast resources, become prostitution? I think it happens when there is an explicit exchange of money/goods for services, rather than an implicit arrangement or understanding. This site seems to push into a bizarre grey area, it seems hard to classify.
Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow
If the privation of money or its equivalents leads to privation of affection or its equivalents, then the relationship is equivalent to prostitution.
that we should be making fun of.
Tremendous!
Girls who sign up for this expecting the scenario to be non-sexual are incredibly naive. But I guess you'd have to be a bit crazy to sign up for something like this in the first place.
the guys want (if not sex)? I get to pay your $14,000 tuition AND I get to listen to you nag and complain all day? Where do I sign up?
...confidence is the stain they can't wipe off...
relationship with a Sugar Daddy because we're just the bestest university in the whole universe where all our women are pure and virginal until they get married to upright professional men.
plus a red hotel on Park Place. She turned me down; something about a irst-round drat pick BF and more money.
Wutever...
L.S.A. '88
Financial pressure can be tough, especially student loan debt and the increased difficulty in finding a high paying entry-level job. But as the unnamed girl points out in the article, all this amounts to is prostitution. I hope and pray that young girls in college (even MSU) find ways to pay for school that don't include selling their bodies to men.
"... Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it
You're welcome for the $100 gift card, lady.
There are apparently several hundred women in our state who were so sheltered from every conceivable reference to S-E-X that it never occurred to them what the very name "Seeking Arrangements" and term "Sugar Daddy" implied?
Dude could have saved $75. Take MSU coed to $2 draft night and he would have scored too.
life is like a box of chocolates... and you got the Whizzo Quality Assortment
One of my girlfriend's sorority sisters would go back to Grand Rapids quite frequently or she would be in Chicago or NYC for the weekend. I was always sort of wondering why she was gone so much, especially since she had a boyfriend in Ann Arbor; their relationship seemed pretty damned strong, too.
Well, it turns out that this young lady had a sugar daddy, and I was never sure if the BF knew about it. I found out after I had graduated and wasn't close with my girlfriend's friends any more. Not sure I would have told the guy, but I was sort of freaked out. The sugar daddy apparently was giving the girl rent money and some spending money - not sure what the reciprocation was.
To make matters worse, it turns out my GF was banging her old high school teacher, and they ended up getting married. Good times.
We're not really all that much better. WLNS is only talking about MSU because they're a Lansing-based station. According to WJBK, Michigan is number 25 on this list. Not as bad as MSU, but still quite high in the "rankings." Also, lol at EMU being on there as well.
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20599828/4-michigan-universities-on-li...