Blogs abuzz over Penn

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, November, 2006 | by Joseph A. Slobodzian

University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann has at least this consolation: It's not a video on YouTube. Three days after Halloween, the Penn president's annual costume party lived on yesterday, courtesy of the Internet and student Saad Saadi, whose photograph - with him dressed as a suicide bomber and her as Glinda, the good witch in The Wizard of Oz - was launched into the blogosphere.

There, many questioned the whether it was appropriate for the leader of the Ivy League university to pose with someone seemingly making light of Middle East terrorism. And yesterday, Gutmann was on defense, Saadi had apologized, and bloggers were arguing the insensitivity-outrage-political correctness-humor-stupidity-openness-tastelessness and ludicrousness of it all. Gutmann released a...