Easy money. The only explanation why someone would choose this over an honest job. This is going to follow her for the rest of her life. Pre-internet she could have gotten away with this. No way in hell now.
guilty
Heartbreaking.
More evidence of the wickedness of the educational-undustrial complex.
$60K/year for tuition? Better to choose a more reasonable school than sell one’s soul to get an over-priced BA in psychology (I have no idea what she’s studying but I’m betting it’s psych or sociology.)
Duke students are now Blew Devils...?
Sad, prayers for the family.
some nice film to show at family type reunions?
Is it just a supplement or is she paying the full freight for her tuition? Maybe she isn’t making her parents pay the bill like so many kids today who think they are entitled to a college diploma(for whatever reason)at a huge price. I’m thinkin’ Duke ain’t cheap. Maybe it’s just for beer money.
Apparently this young woman was “outed” by a male student who recognized her as a classmate while he was watching porn. Gotta love it. Now he’s as infamous for watching it as she is for appearing in it....
Sorry, but I think they have a responsibility to say something about this. Saying they “support” her is ridiculous and doesn’t help her at all.
Of course, she’s a “women’s studies” major, so she may be too ideological to listen. Porn and prostitution, along with abortion, are sacred to people in “women’s studies”. But I think they do have the responsibility to say something to correct her.
Dad’s a doctor but she has to ‘work’ her way thru college?
Not sure about the family’s financial situation. But I have two in college, and they don’t even let you stand foot on campus until financial obligations are met. Parents have to sign off on payment plans, loans etc. So I doubt she needed porn to pay for tuition. More of a sensationalized excuse.
Fwiw,she continues to enjoy her work as a porn star. And wants to make it a career. How nice.
I’ll throw her some spare change. :)
It was an interesting story, to be sure, but one statement stood out to me: “Tuition at Duke is about $60,000 a year.”
I graduated from a small but prestigious college in my state, where almost all courses were taught by PhDs and there were no graduate assistants teaching, that was not allowed. The tuition, room and board then (1962-66) was $1,300 a year. Here, at an admittedly nationally-known school, it’s many times higher, and adjusting for inflation that $1,300 in 1966 was $9,500 today. Note that the above does not appear to include room and board. I submit that there is no way that this young lady is getting a much, much better education than I did. Maybe somewhat but not to that monetary tune.
Yep, the Griggs-Duke Power Supreme Court decision paid off great for colleges. Their professors’ Full Employment Act of 1971.
Duke University has a $6.0 billion endowment as of 2013, subsidized by the US taxpayer through favorable tax treatment.
Just a thought....
If she where suing for abortion rights, how many people would be there screaming about, ‘her body, her choice, her right...blah, blah blah.
Yet using her body, her choice, her right, to make money is ‘heartbreaking.’
To me that’s always been one of the worst aspects of abortion. It somebody argues that there is an absolute right to destroy life, how can anything less than that ever be called bad? Once you’ve allowed abortion, nudity, sex for hire, etc, etc, are really just parking tickets.
Why is the actor in Porn, always called s Stat?
Although Duke’s net price is around $60K per year, it’s more likely that her family is being asked to contribute in the neighborhood of $15K - $20K, and she’s being asked to contribute several thousand per year (under $5K) from work, and maybe take $5K in loans.
She isn’t doing this to pay $60K per year in tuition, room and board, and fees to Duke.
There is a Duke alum by the name of Taylor Max, who wrote a bunch of books about his debauchery during his law school days at Duke.
One thing he exposed was that attending class to pass was not required. He showed up during the last two weeks, crammed, and passed all his classes. Being an entrepreneur, he decided to work in Mexico as a tour guide for college age kids coming to Mexico to party. He’d spend most of the quarter doing that job, come home, take his exams, and then fly back.
He did that for at least two years of his Duke stay. The ABA passed some sort of rule that has as its nickname the ‘Taylor Max’ rule that was supposed to close this embarrassing loop hole.
He said the toughest thing about law school was getting in. From there, it was about test taking. He didn’t learn much applicable law, and his friends who appear in his books all landed jobs with top tier firms and did fine.
These are the guys running the country now.
Calculus anyone?