There are some questions that will never be answered — we’ll never know whether a tree falling in a forest without anyone around makes a sound, nor will we really understand the appropriate priority of chickens and eggs.But thanks to Juicycampus.com’s new LSU page, we might just have a shot at discovering whether one anonymous poster can successfully “out” a University fraternity. And in news that will cause campus freshmen to breathe a sigh of relief, we just might discover how frequently lady Tigers can expect to be date raped.Now, I know not everyone’s heard of Juicy Campus — so consider this a public service announcement for everyone who thinks a modem is for something other than spreading bile and consuming filth. Juicycampus.com — the Internet’s greatest no holds barred anonymous college rumor site — gives our University its very own purple and gold gossip. Juicy Campus’ LSU section is exactly one week old, and it’s already pitting anonymous tiger against anonymous tiger.The fur is flying.The fun begins in a thread creatively titled “Pike Zeta exchange.” In it, a young man who claims to be a Pike details the lack of action and all-around bad time allegedly had by all.”So I go to the Zeta exchange,” the original poster writes, “and realize that Zeta is the ugly sorority on campus. F.U.N.”This doesn’t sit well with several of the 369 people who’ve viewed this post, and insults start flying. That’s when the magic happened.”PIKE is the biggest douche frat on campus…” writes one anonymous poster. “i have ZTA friends and they didn’t go to that exchange b/c they know ya’ll are a bunch of cocksucking faggots.”I’m shocked — Pike, I hardly knew ye.Juicy Campus is our University’s version of the American revolution — every post has the potential to be the shot heard round the world. Funny as this namecalling was, this exchange is an illustrative example of the numerous proverbial money shots of libel that have lawyers across the nation writhing in ecstasy at the prospect of snagging a hot piece of that litigation action.Sorry, guys, but New Jersey beat you to it — and nobody wants their sloppy seconds.According to a March 19 story “New Jersey Investigates Juicy Campus Gossip Site for Possible Consumer-Fraud Violations” by The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Jeffrey R. Young, the Web site’s content may violate laws that protect citizens from consumer fraud.”The state’s e-commerce investigative unit is exploring whether the site is in violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act. Investigators issued a subpoena to Juicy Campus this week seeking information about how the college affiliation of users is verified, how the site enforces its policy of requiring users under 18 years old to submit a parental release form, and other details about its business practices,” Young wrote.Caitlyn Millat of the New York Daily News cuts through the legalese in her May 11 column, “Earn your degree in online bullying with college gossip Web site.””It’s kind of like Gossip Girl,” Millat writes, “but a whole lot nastier.”I understand libel is a big deal. My editors have made that clear to me. And I understand online identity verification is important in a world where identity theft is a daily occurrence — student media administration had a chat with me about that last semester.But I also know that everything online is necessarily true, so I’m not sure what everyone’s so uptight about.Let me just cut to the chase. Thank you, Juicy Campus. Thank you for giving me something to do during class and at work. Thank you for giving freshmen a survival guide that will actually help them avoid getting a mouthful of herpes.I know some people say gossip is a sin. I say it’s a calling, a duty and a service to one’s fellow man.It’s in that spirit that I celebrate Juicy Campus’ service to the public at large. Not every Web site has the journalistic integrity to print what they have no way of proving goes on behind closed doors at our Greek houses — nor do they publish statistics that can’t be verified.While some go to doctors and scientists for reliable statistics, I rest easy at night now that there’s a place our University’s most precious commodity — our freshmen — can go to protect themselves from sexual assault.”i think everyone needs to build up a tolerance for date rape becuse IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN once if not more than once… personally, I like being date raped, you don’t have to deal with an awkward next morning,” one poster said in a post labeled ‘DRUNK.'”I’m shitfaced,” they added.Who can argue with that kind of expertise?—-contact Neal Hebert at [email protected]