By Andrew Hough
Published: 11:00AM BST 08 Oct 2010
The 22 year-old graduate produced the unofficial “senior honours
thesis” on her alcohol-fuelled sexual flings, mostly with male
athletes from the Duke Lacrosse team.
The 42 page PowerPoint Presentation, titled “An education beyond
the classroom: excelling in the realm of horizontal academics”,
describes her “subjects” in almost scientific detail.
In the extraordinary sexual dossier, Miss Owen, from
Connecticut, graphically describes her lovers, how they met in bars
and what they did after their binge drinking sessions.
Each of her 13 lovers are named and pictured – sometimes
partially naked – while intimate details are also revealed. She
details their “pros” and “cons” and ranks their sexual prowess out
of 10 in coloured charts and an “official f---” list.
The brutally frank “kiss and tell” – submitted to the
“Department of Late-Night Entertainment in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for a Degree in Tempestuous Frolicking” – was
originally meant as a joke when emailed to three friends after she
graduated in May.
But it was subsequently leaked to the university’s 14,000
student population before becoming a global viral hit.
It was the hot topic at Duke, one of the
most prestigious American colleges, which is an
expensive private academy with a predominantly white student
population located in the North Carolina town of Durham.
The student newspaper ran an editorial earlier
this week simply headlined: "Karen Owen shatters the glass
ceiling", in which they condemn her stating: "She actually managed
to demean the opposite sex to the point where one must ask if the
term 'weaker sex' shouldn’t be replaced with 'freakier
sex'."
The electronic “thesis”, compiled from her
three years at Duke, was then
published by several websites before going
viral and becoming one of the most searched terms on the
internet.
It has
made national news in the United States and reopened
the debate about privacy on the internet. One publishing company is
reported
to be considering offering a book deal.
Miss Owen is said to have been
left devastated by the sex scandal and expressed her “regret with
all my heart”. She went to ground on Friday after deleting all of
her profiles on social networking sites.
“Senior year and college in
general often bring about certain situations that result in the
seeking of so-called ‘sex’,” she writes in the
introduction.
“Until now, no studies have
succeeded in developing a methodology for quantifying and ranking
these so-called horizontal academics.
“'In this study, we used data from
four years at Duke University to create evaluation criteria for
such encounters and applied these criteria to evaluated
subjects.”
She added: "The people that are
named in it are the kinds of people that everyone wants to be or be
with. The top dogs, or whatever."
She tells how she watched
pornography with her lovers, exchanged explicit text messages and
had sex in dorms, SUV and BMW cars and even in the university
library during her final weeks of examination.
Miss Owen ranks her lovers’ “raw
score” by their “physical attractiveness, (anatomy) size, talent,
creativity, aggressiveness, entertainment, athletic ability” while
“bonus” points are given for other factors such as
accents.
“Points were deducted for rudeness
or being Canadian”, she adds.
While she is full of praise for
some she is vicious in her criticism of others, including one
unfortunate student of whom their encounter “was over too
quickly”.
She added: “(I have) got some
fantastic stories for the grandkids.”
But on Thursday, after the
presentation made international headlines, she expressed her sorrow
for the incident.
"I regret it with all my heart,"
she told
The News of Today website.
"I would never intentionally hurt
the people that are mentioned on that." Her family later declined
to comment.
None of the men featured in the
"thesis" would comment.
A University spokesman said
officials were “reaching out to those who’ve been affected by this
incident” and said the wellbeing of their students was their
primary concern.
He said students were being
educated about the dangers of the internet.
"Our foremost concern is to
provide for the well-being of our students, and to respect their
privacy," he said.
"We've been reaching out to those
who've been affected by this incident and will continue to support
them.
"This is an unfortunate and highly
visible reminder that anything you create or send in digital form
can find its way to the web, where the media have an insatiable
appetite for the outrageous and your privacy and reputation can be
shredded with a few clicks."
The incident comes after the Duke
lacrosse team was embroiled in a sex scandal in 2006.
Members were accused by a young
black woman who falsely claimed she was beaten, raped and subjected
to racial abuse by three white men from Duke's highly rated Blue
Devils lacrosse team after being hired as a stripper for a sports
club party.
The athletes denied the
allegations and a year later the charges were dropped and the
prosecutor disbarred.
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Linkie
Sigh..... how did she even get into university in the first
place? 
