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Tuesday, in a storm of social media celebration, Virginia Tech was named the winner of the Victoria’s Secret Collegiate Showdown.
Organized as a March-Madness style online voting competition, the event relied heavily on Facebook and Twitter promotion to encourage college students to cast votes for their school’s chance to win a back-to-school PINK party, complete with Victoria Secret PINK models, games, giveaways and a free concert.
Tech beat the University of Texas in the final round of the contest, which ended at noon.
“I was sitting online at noon waiting for the results,” said Allison Hudson, a sophomore hospitality and tourism and human resources management major. “They didn’t actually appear on my computer until 12:03 (p.m.). I just kept refreshing my screen, texting everyone I knew, checking Twitter, asking ‘Did we win? Did we win?’”
The contest spanned over six rounds and four weeks of voting, though it was only recently that many students, including Matt Armiger, a sophomore history major, began focusing on voting.
“I didn’t vote, I just didn’t have the time. But for the past couple of days, every other post has been ‘vote here,’” Armiger said.
Hudson said Facebook was a contributing factor in accelerating the voting process.
“At first, I didn’t really hear anything about it. Then last week, everyone on Facebook started getting really excited about it and wanted to vote as soon as possible. Every day, I had to log on and check the site and make sure I voted,” Hudson said.
To vote, students were required to sign up for a PINK Nation account, a promotional group for Victoria’s Secret PINK. Each registered member was allowed to cast one vote per day, per round of the competition.
However, some students — especially Siggi Simonarson — found ways to maximize their number of votes. Simonarson, a sophomore computer science major, created a link on his personal webpage, Siggisim.com, that allowed students to cast multiple votes a day for the competition.
Simonarson capitalized on a glitch in the Victoria’s Secret voting program, which allowed students to open multiple tabs before voting for the day, and then casting votes from each open window. Simonarson wrote code for a Web page that allowed users to open 50 separate voting screens in one Web browser window, enabling students to quickly submit massive amounts of votes.
A version of this article appeared in the Apr 11 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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Publicly acknowledging cheating. Smooth, CT. Very smooth.
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Because nobody ever cheats in an online voting contest?
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Doesn't mean the writer should have publicized that for all of the world to see. It sure doesn't shed a very good light on VT students.
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you won by cheating ... that just says a lot about this school. just because they didn't have a full-proof system to prevent cheat-arounds doesn't mean that the rules are 1 vote/day/person. LAME! way to cast shame on this school, i hope the honor court sees this story and takes action.
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This isn't the first time it's happened either under similar circumstances -- would anyone care for some Planters' Peanuts?
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Haters gonna hate.
On the bright side you still have a degree from UT, so you've got that going for you...
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Thanks bro.
But what really rustled my jimmies was that guy who said "(we) have less of a life to spend time sitting on the Internet and voting than people at other schools.” Ummm yeah, awesome excuse for cheating, and are you implying that UT students are less busy than VTech students? Stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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Fool-proof, not full-proof.
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Reading this comment hurt my brain. Who let you on the interwebs?
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LOL. Oh no, anything but the honor court!!!
I don't think there's ever been a winner of a mass voting contest that didn't cheat. I promise you that every single school in this competition cheated.
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The rules were one vote per account, multiple accounts were never mentioned as being against the rules. VS isnt going to care that they had more accounts created on their page, its good business
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Actually it was clearly stated on the website that only one body may vote per day - the account was merely a way (a very poor one at that) to enforce said rule.
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Now the NCAA is going to put sanctions on us and we'll have Victoria Secrets Championship vacated. LOL
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Seriously! Is cheating this acceptable? I was astonished that students are bragging about 'beating' the system....CHEATING and still feel the school is a winner. It is heart breaking to me for VT to be represented in this mannter. HEART BREAKING!!!
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I agree with Kim and the other posters. It's a classless way to represent the school. And for what?
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For a VICTORIA'S SECRET PARTY! Duh!
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Probably not very smart to acknowledge cheating, but to be honest, what school did not do this? Every other school was voting against tech. you can not be disappointed because every other college was trying to win too, and most likely doing the same stuff as well.. Maybe now VS will figure out a way to stop it.
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Virginia Tech was the only school that was widely encouraging this technique. Two schools that went up against Tech started encouraging it as a last resort attempting to fight fire with fire. Every other school (in the later rounds, at least) tried very hard to stop as much cheating as possible. Victoria Secret was also very well aware of what was going on. The sad thing is, it is very easy to curb this cheating using logging data (it is a lot quicker than one might think, even with tens of thousands of votes) among other techniques the maintenance team could have employed. As long as their website was accruing a huge amount of hits, Victoria Secret couldn't care less who won or what methods were taking place.
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That's nice. Would you like some cheese with that whine?
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I couldn't care less who won or where the party was held, I was merely stating facts. I fail to see how that was whining at all, especially if I don't care about any of this. Cheers to another classless individual
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Using IPs wouldn't be a fair system of justifying what a legitimate vote was. Many "fair" votes were made by people sharing computers - such as votes from library computers and friends letting others borrow their laptop to vote.
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To be honest, all the other schools were most likely doing the same thing, just they don't acknowledge in a newspaper article. and if this was all over facebook on how to cheat then you can be sure the other schools did it too.
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if texas didn't have a student who could figure this out, then they didn't deserve to win--it isn't like you had to get lulzsec to figure this one out.
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I for one knew of a multitude of ways we could have vote-bombed the website, among other techniques, that would have allowed us to have won. A lot of my peers have known of various ways to win; however, the large majority of us wanted to win this contest fairly by voting fairly and stopping our own peers from attempting to cheat (on the rare occasion one might ask if they should indeed cheat). We were very well aware of the cheating going on, which is why so many people from other schools were willing to vote for us. We approached this contest legitimately - the way it was ideally supposed to be approached.
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And I'm sure you speak for your entire student body when you say no one endorsed cheating. For a school that only had 1,252 votes for their last Student Government election, I find it highly unlikely that their voter turnout increased by 3000% for this competition. There's less than 2,700 students in the Unite Texas! Facebook group, even if they all voted that wouldn't account for a tenth of the votes. I doubt the students from other schools accumulated over more than another 1,000 legitimate votes. Most likely votes coming from other schools against VT because they lost were all a result of cheating. Nonetheless, I'd give UT about 10,000 (I never saw them break 8,000 in any of the rounds before, which were also longer) or so legitimate votes, less than a 1/3 of the total amount of votes they had. Clearly plenty of people were cheating from UT, as were from VT. They might not have announced their tactics as publicly, but very few people actually approached the competition "legitimately".
Texas was obviously cheating at the end of the tournament, if there was a magical technique that would have allowed you to win, you would have used it.
On a side note, Virginia Tech won the preliminary rounds (as far as my knowledge, and for the majority at least) legitimately. There also weren't any obvious signs of cheating until they were up against Rutgers, who were also guilty of cheating. They just adapted to Texas' "fighting fire with fire" mentality a couple of rounds earlier.
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cool story bro, tell it again.
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I hope you checked that there is no way this violates rules and conditions that everyone agreed to before voting, somehow forfeiting our victory. Also, was someone rushed in trying to submit this on time? These quotes were atrocious.
"Everyone could do it, so it's not REALLY cheating."
Uh, everyone is able to do steroids, blood doping, and any other form of cheating, but it's still outlawed.
"we...have less of a life to spend time sitting on the Internet and voting than people at other schools."
There are no facts whatsoever to back this up. In fact, if anything, there's an article that ranked us as one of the top slacker schools. It took 2 seconds to vote each day. There is nobody out there that couldn't spare the 2 minutes that it took to vote each day.
Why not get quotes from the Victoria Secret VT representatives? Why even publish this at all? This is in poor taste, and irresponsible journalism in my opinion.
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Wow...Just so VT knows everyone at UT was encouraging each other to vote but I never saw anything about cheating. We try to uphold a standard of honesty at our University. Not only did VT cheat but students are brazenly admitting it. If UT did cheat those people are smart enough to keep it to themselves.
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UT did cheat and I have a screenshot of said cheating
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I agree with everything that person said, except I don't really care if it gets forfeited or whatever. But, I seriously hate that the CT is the "voice of our university."
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...I can't believe you guys are actually stupid enough to post this publicly where anyone can view it. It's one thing to know we did it, and another to broadcast it to everyone. If we lose this victory and party somehow, it's on you CT. You should take this down immediately.
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I wish the CT could revert back to 1988 when it was a "good" newspaper. SMH...
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I can't believe the CT exposes cheating and they are somehow the bad guy.
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Yes, they are the bad guy because they are supposed to be the "voice of our campus" not rat the students out for cheating.
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Why was the article written? Like seriously.
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Why did you publish this article? Whoever wrote this needs to be fired. Did you not consider the consequences of writing this article? I'm sure almost every individual who attends this school has already heard the news of the competition - there was no need to throw us all under the bus by broadcasting the "glitch" in the system. I feel bad for the shame you caused for the poor individual who created the cheating technique, you've defamed her name. These quotes offer no valuable points in the article, other than embarrassing those who clearly were randomly interviewed. Why did you choose to display this on the cover page, rather than important current events, such as Trayvon Martin, or even Rick Santorum. You are a shame of a publication.
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Self-righteous enough? The student author has no reason to be ashamed. She wrote an informative article that included quotes voluntarily given to her. As for your issue with the subject matter, why would the VIRGINIA TECH school newspaper cover news on Trayvon or Santorum? Winning the party is a current event to this paper's readership and warranted front page coverage.
Frankly you're just a blowhard trolling from the safety of a computer. The author did a fine job but you are the shame of our school.
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Yeah, that's obviously the case since all of the other comments on this article completely agree with you ....
Also, you do realize that the CT DOES indeed report national news? It is called a NEWSpaper. Also, there's a difference in reporting that we won and putting it on the front page, and in going on and on about how we cheated & who was in charge of said cheating. That commenter is far from the shame of our school, you should probably re-evaluate.
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False. Two sources that are quoted in the article stated that they were approached by a random girl asking for their opinion. That is not volunteering their opinions. She should have seeked out informative sources that had some knowledge or ties with the competition...maybe the VS reps, or even the girls on Facebook who were posting every 3 seconds.
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People relax. Who wouldn't want to win? I'm quite sure every school tried to beat the system. How do you think the previous winners won? If this was such a big deal to VS Pink system regulation, they would have done a better job to prevent that from happening.
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Besides the fact this is a poorly written, unimaginative article I have a problem with it. I tried using the multiple tab glitch to vote more than once, but I found out it doesn't work. In order for the vote to be confirmed you had to confirm a text on your cell phone from the contest. I tried to confirm more than one vote in a day and I received a text saying to wait until tomorrow. Open as many tabs as you want, but have fun getting a cell phone text conformation to actually validate your vote. That method of gaining votes is impossible. Check your facts before writing. Oh, and maybe take a writing class, or just get any class you can find.
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You're an idiot. Texting was another method of voting, and I was never asked to wait for a 'confirmation' text when I would even vote once.
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well then i apologize, every time i tried to vote i had to confirm a text.
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I have just two things to say:
1. Rutgers, UT and Purdue to an extent cheated too. We weren't the only ones. There is no mention of that.
2. See Hannah Husain
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Rutgers and Purdue did cheat, as they openly admitted to it to fight fire with fire, since they were obviously going to lose without cheating. Virginia Tech openly encouraged every single student to employ cheating methods. One such post included a picture of multiple tabs saying "if your screen doesn't look like this, you're doing it wrong". A Virginia Tech student even intentionally photoshopped screenshots of conversations UT students were having in an attempt to slander their names and slander the entire university. Instead of cheating, the majority of Texas students reached out towards restaurants, shops, and large facebook/twitter groups. I'm not saying all UT students played fairly, because let's face it, odds are at least one person out there voted illegitimately. However, students at UT did the most in their power to try to stop cheating before anyone might even think about it.
I'm not even going to get started with the HH comment. I was very angry with what she said but she acknowledged she was very wrong and was caught up in the moment. We all make mistakes, she just happened to make a very bad one. At least she's living up to it
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Virginia Tech didn't encourage cheating. Virginia Tech never even made mention of the contest. Students at Virginia Tech may have encouraged stuffing the ballot box. A group of students obsessed with a clothing company don't represent or speak for all of Virginia Tech.
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She may have apologized but that does mean she deserves to be forgiven. She bought up the shooting 3 times on two separate posts at different times. There's getting caught up in the moment and then is just being an all around terrible person
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My apologies - you're absolutely correct. I should have chosen a different choice of words. I should have said a staggeringly large amount of students at the University, not the University itself. I have much respect for the fine institution.
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I'm not saying that she should be forgiven. Personally, I haven't forgiven her because I don't believe any circumstance would warrant such a statement. I just don't think it should be continually brought up seeing as one person doesn't represent the entire student body. I would very much so like to forget about such a terrible comment.
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Wait, where did she apologize?
Like someone else mentioned - it was a recurring comment she made. Her last retweet before her twitter went down was a thinly veiled excuse to the effect of "you can't judge me. accept me or not. you're not god".
So, yeah, I'd love to see her (damage control) apology.
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ONE MORE TIME - I'm asking you where her apology is. Where is it? Where can I find it? All the UT kids stalking this page keep alluding to it, so post it, anyone. I want to see the apology for myself because I will always feel unsettled until I see that it's sincere.
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Wow, what a poor excuse for journalism here. Just another reason it is ludicrous that student fees are what keeps the paper running. That's right VT students, you are paying for trash like this to be continually published by the CT.
I sure hope they had permission from the inventive student who they threw under the bus here. Just appalling that something like this even gets past any editors.
As to the "cheating" issue being addressed in this "article", I can't even believe this is a topic of discussion. Firstly, it is not even proven that the alleged method of voting even works. There is no evidence to support the assertion that the extra votes were even counted. Additionally, the site that is referenced as holding the alleged "cheat" isn't didn't even hack anything. All the "cheat" did was open multiple tabs in your browser. A nice feat, but by no means does it warrant these types of allegations. A resourceful individual put his knowledge and education to practice to accomplish a goal, and that should be something that we are proud of. The keys to the future lie in applying what we know to complex problems and coming up with creative solutions. I commend this individual.
P.S. I would like my fees that are paid to the CT to be reimbursed due to the continued plague of unbelievably one sided and sensationalist "reporting".
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The CT is completely independent from the university and receives none of your precious fees. Do your research.
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Actually...
"Despite its independence, the newspaper receives free office space and $70,000 annually from the university, Vice President for Student Affairs Ed Spencer said."
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"The newspaper stopped receiving university funds in 1979 and has since supported its operations with advertising and subscription revenues."
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/about
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I actually emailed Dr. Spencer and Dr. Simms about this issue earlier this week. This was the response I received:
"Thanks for your note. With respect to a breakdown of the funding provided to student organizations, by copy I am asking Dr. Guy Sims, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, to respond to your request. With respect to the Collegiate Times, it is one part of the Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech (www.collegemedia.com). The other parts include The Bugle, Silhouette, WUVT, and VTTV. In exchange for the provision of services from the EMCVT, the Relationship Agreement executed with the EMCVT in 1997 provides for an annual sum of $70,000 and office space to be provided to the EMCVT from the Student Activities fee which all full-time students pay as part of their comprehensive fee. Note that this is not a part of the tuition charge which students pay."
aka, the CT website is a blantant lie.
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UT student here and I am outraged we lost to some dang cheaters.
Honestly, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like???
Wake up victorias secrets.
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maybe it's just me who doesnt get it, but this could be the most incoherent thing i've ever read
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.....what? Was that even English? That was almost as bad as what the CT writes.
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You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It’s just common sense.
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I don't condone the cheating but if our 'win' in this competition is revoked, students who actually took the time to vote legitimately are going to be in up in arms against the CT and particularly Victoria Zigadlo.
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I hope something is done about the errors in this article. Retraction is the only way to make it up to the VT community before VS gets a look at this. I wouldn't be surprised if those snitches at Texas send this to them. And guess whose to blame for that....not Texas, but you Collegiate Times.
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Boooo! To the person who wrote this article... way to be a Hokie.
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Yeah, "The Secret's out" that VT cheated. Ironic. Thanks for that CT and Victoria Zigaldo.
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Just a few points:
1. It was one vote per an email account a day. If you have multiple emails you get multiple votes. Case closed, stop arguing it.
2. To all the UT students saying that VT students lack class. Last time I checked you all were the ones with the girl saying things like, I hope the models don't get shot this fall. You want an example of classlessness, look at yourselves before you look at us.
3. My final point. The CT is a sad excuse of a paper and now is a great change for reform. The paper is full of poor reporting and sub par writing. It is incredibly disappointing that these so called writers call themselves our voice.
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Everything you just said I agree with. She may have been one person but she represented the University as a whole. She put the nail in the coffin on UT's loss
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First of all the girl who wrote that apologized. Now for most people, they would accept it or not and move on. People from VT went way far into posting her as a c*** on google, kicking her out of her sorority, and constanlty reposting the image all over the website. She probably learned her lesson by all the backlash she was getting but instead VT RUINED her life. Enough with mentioning her in posts, even if you dont accept her apology, know that she lives in a different state and that you will never see her face to face.
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First of all, you typically only say 'first of all' if you have multiple points to make.
Second, it wasn't like she just made one rude comment, she made multiple obscene and extremely inappropriate comments... not okay. It's called libel, she should have thought about what she was doing and how her actions would affect others. I don't feel bad for her at all, she deserves it.
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If she apologized I would like to see that please point me in the right direction. And frankly, there should be reprecussions for her actions, I would expect the same if this had been reversed. She didn't make a mistake, she continually posted offensive and ignorant things. You're typing, you have the ability to think about what you are posting and delete it when you know it is wrong. She didn't do that, she kept repeating her offensive remarks, making any apologize small.
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People certainly need to stop blaming other schools and accusing them of cheating. Every school had it, and I'd like to see proof that specific schools were doing it more than others before any accusations are made.
About the "classiness" issue -- I don't think UT should be judged for the actions of ONE student. Yes, it was a completely uncalled for and senseless string of comments, but that is one person. There are people at our school making rude comments as well, but I would still say that VT as a whole is polite and well-meaning.
But yeah, I've never been satisfied with the CT as a representation of our school. I'm not even satisfied with it as decent reading material when I'm bored, no matter how often I check it out to look for substantial writing pieces.
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It's very easy to tell Virginia Tech students were publicly encouraging the cheating methods much, much more than anyone else. Spend as much time as you'd like browsing through the public "University of X Class of Y" pages on facebook (as well as all other pages involving the students) and twitter and it becomes very obvious quite quickly. This is all meaningless though.
I completely agree with your comment on the "classiness" issue. Very rude comments were thrown back and forth among both sides but the most powerful of which came from a UT student. As a UT student, I'm more than embarrassed that one of my peers would make such a comment but she has since apologized as much as she can admitting how wrong she truly was. She's living up to her error and her heated opinion does not represent the collective opinion of our student body.
At any rate, the contest is over and Virginia Tech gets to host the party. Congratulations are in order, regardless of whether one might think they deserve it or not. I'm appalled with the magnitude of rudeness over a simple party. I'm still confused as to why this article was written. Virginia Tech has won and that's that. The students are very excited about this party and people need to stop trying to dampen their excitement
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First of all, regarding the girl who wrote "models get shot up in the fall..." she has apologized for her actions. So stop trying to completely delibreatly ruin her life, by attacking her facebook page and her sorority. There was also a nice girl who goes to VTech by the name of Yassane who wrote very harmful comments as well so you might just not want to point fingers in one direction. Also Vinny Abess has called her a c*** multiple times so please be careful in pointing fingers.
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Could you please post a harmful comment that "yassane" made? No one knows the whole story about why that post was made in the first place on their page. That wasn't her first time making a reference to the shooting. The first night she said it she said she didn't regret going that far thats why they were called out for losing.
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You are wrong. Hannah Husain said multiple times she was not sorry for her actions. Vinny Abess just said the apology was not sincere. In which it really was not. Hannah Husain should be suspended from her school.
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You have it wrong. Hannah Husain apology was not sincere at all. She kept repeating about the shooting. Hannah Husain is the most ignorant person in the world. Vinny Abess and Yasmeen were simply stating what she said was not right and said how apology was not sincere also.
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Maybe you should just drop the whole thing? Clearly, they weren't innocent either, they escalated the conflict. Even 2 days after this happened, Vinny is still posting personal information of her. He is clearly the one who needs help
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Why would you post this. Don't you want the party? Aren't you for VT? Do you want the party taken away? Take this down geeze
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Wow you people are awful. Getting mad at a newspaper for running a story about how pathetic your student body is? My goodness. “Everyone can do it, so it’s not really cheating. It’s just that people at our school are more dedicated to it and have less of a life to spend time sitting on the Internet and voting than people at other schools.” I'm astounded. Think about what it says about your school when all of you are willing to do these classless things just to have a party, which in years past, hasn't been that great. Is there nothing interesting going on at Virginia Tech?
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Whether or not we deserve this from cheating....I'm just trying to see some PINK Models, finally in person!!!!
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UT got 4,000 votes in 15 minutes. They were obviously cheating too. Just saying.
To everyone-VT, UT, wherever: making incredibly offensive remarks to anyone about a tragedy, a newspaper article, or whatever is pathetic. There are so many more important things to get riled up about. Perspective...
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VT, UT, everyone: Be realistic. Every school had students utilizing these methods; the endless accusations are ridiculous. Those who claim that cheating was encouraged or spread more at specific schools -- provide proof, and I'm sure people will gladly take you seriously.
In any case, this article is a poor representation of our school and yet another example of the poor quality of the CT.
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To everyone mentioning Hannah Husain can we just leave it alone? The first guy that commented back said it all. He spoke what we wanted to say. Everything after that comment was just name calling and unnecessary. As for CT, why even post this. I don't want filth like this newspaper to represent me.
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Why are UT students even reading this article? Do you really care that much about some stupid party?
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I was wondering this myself. They definitely care way too much about this if they are willing to come comment on a CT article. That means, I assume, they searched out this specific article to comment "no fair, you cheated!" about who should have won some Victoria's Secret online voting contest.
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Just wasted my time reading this.
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Hannah Husain's actions were uncalled for. The University of Texas student called out those of Virgnia Tech's. I quote Hannah Hussain's words, "Lets hope those Victoria Secret models don't get shot up up in your campus in the fall :)." (even the smiley face included) Even after being told she was arrogant and completely out of line saying that, she continued and kept going, saying she was not sorry.
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And everyone at UT called her out on that and felt ashamed that She thought that was ok to say.
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I agree with the above comment. She acted on her own when she said that, and if you have a problem with it, take it up with her rather than whining about under an article about the VS competition and the cheating that took place in it.
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As a UT student, it'll probably sound like whining, but that really was BS. On our page, we actually (for the most part, of course, there probably were people that did it anyway) agreed that we didn't want to cheat to win. We set up voting tables, and messaged schools that had lost to VT to vote for us. But it really doesn't seem smart to brag about cheating. Also, this article didn't mention that VT had a ton of people open up 50 tabs in order to SHUT THE SITE DOWN for the last 20 mins.
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Yeah, hi, hey - what would you have us do? Your school has, on any given year, some 15k to 20k extra kids on us. How about we sit everyone down and have them vote fairly.
But - how could that ever be fair? That's why VS sneakily leaves it up to 'one vote per account'. Every school 'cheats'. Every school talks about it (someone posted a tip on our event page that they cited from Rutger's). The difference is, this is the first year that a sore loser has emerged and pointed the finger at us. They've cried and stomped - despite undoubtedly having 'cheated' too - they found our CT articles and posted on them, days after the end. They (that hannah girl) REPEATEDLY tweeted @VSpink to check on us and our cheating. Yeah, I get it, you don't mess with texas - or else what? You'll be a giant, hypocritical baby about it?
Way I see it, the more determined school was us. Not just this year; we consistently make it to 2nd place and beat out much larger schools than us. Proportionally, we have the stronger community. UT LITERALLY came out of nowhere this year, and somehow think they're entitled to it? Congratulations on having a larger body? That somehow still couldn't beat us. Move along.
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As a sideline observer, it's funny to hear VT students defend their glitch. It sounds like every side was at least a little dishonest, but it's funny to hear some people say, "ya, we cheated, but it's ok cause we're not as big as you guys" lol... You gave up your values for a couple models and free underwear.
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Hi 'Sideline observer' i.e. UT student, please explain how both sides are dishonest but we gave up our values? Where does one draw the line at how much dishonesty is allowed? And how do you have access to the data that says we sold out most? And how do you measure it?
I still maintain that after 3 years in this competition, you guys are the single most sore losers to come out of it. And this was your first year making it to an impressive round. The ego I've witnessed is unbelievable.
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Goodness, people have attitudes. First of all, the reason that UT students are on here is because people are posting the link to it saying that VT got "caught", even though we already knew this was happening. Not because we're still crying over the party and stalking your online newspaper. (Or maybe some are.. I really hope not, though).
Secondly, I'm one of those people that basically watches the drama on the sidelines and I will say that UT students were NOT encouraging cheating in any kind of way. However, with as many students as there are at UT, I don't see why it would be necessary in the first place, and I think it's more understandable coming from a smaller school like VT.
In the end, I just don't see why it matters. It's a party and VT won despite whatever measures they went to. Obviously Victoria's Secret doesn't really care that much or they would have done something about it. I've seen so many people say awful things about both schools and photoshopping images? really? It's honestly so sad to me that people are going through all of that trouble just to insult other schools, and it makes the whole school look bad. That's the worst part about this situation and all anyone can focus on is the "cheating" methods, when people at UT probably did it too, but just didn't admit it openly like VT (which, btw, was a pretty dumb move).
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This is sad. How can you be proud of capitalizing on a glitch on the system? Puhthetic.
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A classless cheating campaign to win a tasteless contest...sounds about right to me! Is Virginia Tech really going to allow VS to use their name and logo to sell their products?
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You're probably boring
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In general I'm not really very impressed with the CT's journalistic standards... but I have to say, this is one time I do not agree with the majority of people who seem to be criticizing the CT for publishing this. It's borderline creepy to me how enraged some of the students commenting on this article are becoming in their demands for censorship of what by most accounts is a factually accurate piece.. sometimes journalism is about exposing things that are uncomfortable or unpleasant, and I would much rather have a school paper that brings the people the ugly truths rather than sweeping them under the rug.
Virginia Tech students did cheat. So did students at other schools, though I doubt anyone can truly say what the prevalence of cheating at UT was compared to here at VT. Personally I don't think it's that big a deal in any case because I have always been under the impression that the methods used to cheat were well known and, if not specifically endorsed by Victoria's Secret, certainly not actively discouraged. That being said, it's absurd to me that anyone would call for this article to be taken down on the basis that, having exposed us for what we did, we might face some negative repercussions because of our less than above-board actions. I'm sorry but a free concert is not worth censoring our paper over.
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OH MY GOD VT SHAME SHAME FOR BEING THE ****ONLY**** SCHOOL TO VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY AND NO OTHER SCHOOL CHEATED JUST VT AND THAT IS WHY VT WON AND UT DIDNT!!
......Seriously? Boohoo, Cry me a river.
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Friends, in one week you'll forget about your opinion on this. Channel your energy on catching the bus.
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Sooo you are really "excited" AND "proud to have cheated your way throughout the whole competition?? I go to UT and the day day of voting, I saw TONS of people in class, in the library, and my dorm voting...then they just beat us out of no where.
Really V-Tech?
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