January 30, 2009

They Came, They Eavesdropped, They Published

By STEVE KOLOWICH

Colleges are bastions of lofty discourse where great minds engage regularly in repartee laced with obscure literary allusions.

Or not.

Often the dialogue is less than impressive, and when that happens, someone might be listening. and taking notes.

Inspired by the popular Overheard in New York blog — which posts the out-of-context comments of strangers as reported by eavesdroppers — students at a number of colleges have started their own sites.

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